GELLI GARN CASTLE;HILL HOUSE, CASTLE

Site Details

NPRN
307563
Map Reference
SS97NE
Grid Reference
SS96057869
Unitary (Local) Authority
The Vale of Glamorgan
Old County
Glamorgan
Community
Llangan
Type of Site
MOTTE AND BAILEY
Broad Class
Defence
Period
Medieval

Site Description

NAR SS97NE13

A ditch and banked circular enclosure, c.14m internal and 25-6m overall diameter, with a sub-rectangular, ditched and banked enclosure, its N part obscured, c.36m N-S by 27m, on the E; castle thought to have been disused by later 12th C., the land being granted/exchanged with Neath Abbey, 1154-84 (see Nprn18739 - Gelligarn Grange).

Source: RCAHMW 1991 Glamorgan III.1a 'the Earlier Castles', CR8 101-2.

J.Wiles 08.10.04