PENRHOS CASTLE
Site Details
Site Details
Online Images (1)
Associated Collection Records (9)
- NPRN
- 306505
- Map Reference
- SO41SW
- Grid Reference
- SO40941321
- Unitary (Local) Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Old County
- Monmouthshire
- Community
- Llantilio Crossenny
- Type of Site
- MOTTE
- Broad Class
- Defence
- Period
- Medieval
Site Description
Penrhos Castle is a ditched motte, about 30m in diameter and 6.0m high, standing towards the south of an irregular oval enclosure, about 40m by 80m, defined by a ditch, with an internal bank on the north-east and having a counterscarp except to the south-east.
It is possibly the castle mentioned as being demolished c.1252.
(source Os495card; SO41SW1)
The castle earthworks appear to be set within the south-west angle of a roughly subrectangular earthwork enclosure, about 160m east-west by 160m, whose eastern side is obscured by a current road; OS County series, 3rd ed. (Monmouth. XIII.4 1920), shows the the scarp of this enclosure's south-west angle where it springs from the south of the castle earthworks.
RCAHMW AP94-CS 0569-70, 1276
RCAHMW AP945075/69-70; 945149/66
J.Wiles 20.09.02
