CASTELL LLANGADOG; CASTELL MEURIG

Site Details

NPRN
304636
Map Reference
SN72NW
Grid Reference
SN70922755
Unitary (Local) Authority
Carmarthenshire
Old County
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llangadog
Type of Site
MOTTE AND BAILEY
Broad Class
Defence
Period
Medieval

Site Description

NAR SN72NW2

Earthworks of a medieval castle recorded as having been destroyed in 1209.
The castle occupies an isolated natural knoll with low lying, damp ground on all sides but the north. It consits of a massive ditched mound or motte, at the north-east end of a pointed oval embanked enclosure or bailey.
The steep-sided flat-topped castle mound is rather oval in plan, about 46m east-west by 35m, and rises 9.2m to a summit some 24m by 14m across. The embanked bailey is roughly 120m north-east to south-west by 88m and shows traces of an external ditch.

John Wiles 03.10.07