HEN BLAS;COLESHILL CASTLE

Site Details

NPRN
307131
Map Reference
SJ27SW
Grid Reference
SJ22167345
Unitary (Local) Authority
Flintshire
Old County
Flintshire
Community
Bagillt
Type of Site
CASTLE
Broad Class
Defence
Period
Medieval

Site Description

There is mention of a castle being built in this location in 1157 and captured in 1166. The physical remains include an enclosure approximately 48m north-south by 50m east-west sited on a spur-end beween two streams flowing from west to east. It is defined by a ditch on the west and elsewhere by steep natural slopes. On the west is an outer enclosure 72m north-south by 78m, again ditched on the west.
Excavations concluded in 1957 demonstrated that an earthwork castle was replaced by a 'fortified manorhouse' in the early thirteenth century which was itself abandoned in the late fourteenth century.

J.Wiles, RCAHMW, 22 November 2002