MOAT FARM, CASTLE;MANAFON MOTTE

Site Details

NPRN
306762
Map Reference
SJ10SW
Grid Reference
SJ11410227
Unitary (Local) Authority
Powys
Old County
Montgomeryshire
Community
Manafon
Type of Site
MOTTE AND BAILEY
Broad Class
Defence
Period
Medieval

Site Description

A mound, c.30m in diameter and 6.5m high, with a summit 14m in diameter, formerly showing traces of a ditch, set on a spur between a 15m high river terrace and a stream gully. Traces of a possible bailey ditch have been observed c.33m to the S, amid modern farm buildings.
(source Os495card; SJ10SW3)
J.Wiles 17.10.02