HOWE MILL, ENCLOSURE;ST MARY'S CASTLE (POSSIBLE)
Site Details
Site Details
Associated Collection Records (2)
- NPRN
- 307728
- Map Reference
- ST07SW
- Grid Reference
- ST00497213
- Unitary (Local) Authority
- The Vale of Glamorgan
- Old County
- Glamorgan
- Community
- Llanfair (The Vale of Glamorgan)
- Type of Site
- DEFENDED ENCLOSURE
- Broad Class
- Defence
- Period
- Unknown
Site Description
NAR ST07SW15
A greatly ploughed-down, roughly D-shaped enclosure, c.30m N-S by 50-60m, resting on natural scarps above a stream to the N, defined elsewhere by a single spread bank.
Sometimes identified as a castle enclosure.
Source: RCAHMW 1991 Glamorgan III.1a 'the Earlier Castles', 104-106.
J.Wiles 29.01.03
