MILL WOOD CASTLE, OPPOSITE DINGESTOW

Site Details

NPRN
306497
Map Reference
SO41SE
Grid Reference
SO45971038
Unitary (Local) Authority
Monmouthshire
Old County
Monmouthshire
Community
Mitchel Troy
Type of Site
MOTTE
Broad Class
Defence
Period
Medieval

Site Description

Mill Wood Castle is a ditched mound, c.32m in diameter and 5.0m high, is set at the end of a slight natural promontory at the confluence of two streams. To the north a bank and ditch cut across the promontory, segregating an enclosure, c.34m by 55m.
(source Os495card; SO41SE16)
RCAHMW AP45054/44
J.Wiles 20.09.02