TWYN-Y-GREGEN, MOTTE

Site Details

NPRN
306421
Map Reference
SO30NE
Grid Reference
SO36270966
Unitary (Local) Authority
Monmouthshire
Old County
Monmouthshire
Community
Llanarth (Monmouthshire)
Type of Site
MOTTE
Broad Class
Defence
Period
Medieval

Site Description

A mound, c.20m in diameter and 5.0m high, ditched except where it rests on steep natural slopes to the E, to the S a part of the mound has been consumed by a sand pit. Excavation in 1936 produced high quality 13th c. pottery, but no structural evidence.
(source Os495card; SO30NE7)
RCAHMW AP945055/52
J.Wiles 11.09.02