MOAT CASTLE, KERRY

Site Details

NPRN
306203
Map Reference
SO18NW
Grid Reference
SO14698948
Unitary (Local) Authority
Powys
Old County
Montgomeryshire
Community
Kerry
Type of Site
MOTTE AND BAILEY
Broad Class
Defence
Period
Medieval

Site Description

A ditched motte, c.27-32m in diameter and c.9.0m high, with a bailey, c.35m by 24m defined by scarps, to the W. The bailey platform extends around the motte ditch as a counterscarp, the whole work being c.88m by 59m.
(source Os495card; SO18NW1)
RCAHMW AP955048/43-4
J.Wiles 29.08.02