LLYSSUN CASTLE

Site Details

NPRN
306529
Map Reference
SJ01SW
Grid Reference
SJ03161007
Unitary (Local) Authority
Powys
Old County
Montgomeryshire
Community
Llanerfyl
Type of Site
MOTTE AND BAILEY
Broad Class
Defence
Period
Medieval

Site Description

Llyssun Castle is a motte and bailey castle resting on a scarp above the Banwy floodplain. The ditched motte is c.20m in diameter and 4.0m high, with a summit only 4.0m in diameter, with the bailey to the west represented by a sub-rectangular scarped platform, 16m by 12m.

The placename 'Llyssum' may be significant.

(source Os495card; SJ01SW5)
RCAHMW AP94-CS 1768
RCAHMW AP945180/41-2
J.Wiles 24.09.02