LOWER MIN-Y-LLYN, MOTTE

Site Details

NPRN
306977
Map Reference
SJ20SW
Grid Reference
SJ21080097
Unitary (Local) Authority
Powys
Old County
Montgomeryshire
Community
Forden
Type of Site
MOTTE
Broad Class
Defence
Period
Medieval

Site Description

Lower Min-y-Llyn is a motte, c.45m in diameter and 6.0m high, cut cut from a locally prominant north-east-south-west ridge above the floodplain of the Severn.

A ditch and counterscarp/forework cut across the ridge to the south-west, whilst it is thought possible that the present farm may overlie a former bailey to the north-east.

(source Os495card; SJ20SW2)
RCAHMW AP955003/41-3
J.Wiles 07.11.02