LLYS GWENLLIAN, CASTLE

Site Details

NPRN
306646
Map Reference
SJ06SE
Grid Reference
SJ05636438
Unitary (Local) Authority
Denbighshire
Old County
Denbighshire
Community
Denbigh
Type of Site
MOTTE AND BAILEY
Broad Class
Defence
Period
Medieval?

Site Description

A roughly rectangular enclosure, c.75m by 54m, with a possibly ditched, rather polygonal motte, 24-25m in diameter and 6.5m high, at its SW end. The whole is defined by a ditch, with counterscarps on the NW and SW sides, and possible outworks on the NE; c.140m by 90m overall and obscured by farm buildings.
Associated with a daughter of Llewelyn ap Iorwerth.
(source Os495card; SJ06SE1)
J.Wiles 09.10.02