CEFN BRYTALCH, CASTLE

Site Details

NPRN
306218
Map Reference
SO19NE
Grid Reference
SO17539632
Unitary (Local) Authority
Powys
Old County
Montgomeryshire
Community
Llandyssil
Type of Site
MOTTE AND BAILEY
Broad Class
Defence
Period
Medieval

Site Description

Cefn Brytalch is an earthwork castle formed by adapting a ridge-end position above the Severn to produce two enclosures. The lower of these, c.40m by 20m, embanked and with a causewayed entrance, is open towards an upper work, c.28m by 20m, itself completely embanked. The whole is ditched about with a counterscarp, c.155m by 76m overall.

(source Os495card;SO19NE4)
RCAHMW AP955036/41-2
J.Wiles 29.08.02