CRAIG RUPERRA MOTTE;CASTELL BREINIOL;CASTELL Y DDRAENEN
Site Details
- NPRN
- 91997
- Map Reference
- ST28NW
- Grid Reference
- ST22338670
- Unitary (Local) Authority
- Caerphilly
- Old County
- Glamorgan
- Community
- Rudry
- Type of Site
- MOTTE
- Broad Class
- Defence
- Period
- Medieval
Site Description
1. A roughly circular mound 32m in diameter and 6m high surrounded by a ditch and counterscarp bank, well-defined on the N and W but apparently slighter on the S and E, though partly obscured here by masking vegetation. Located at the NE end of a hillfort (Nprn226513).
DKL 14.12.99
2. Motte re-used as a landscape feature, with a revetted spiral path (extant) leading to a summerhouse, built before 1785, not noted 1875, upon the summit.
Associated with:
Ruperra Castle parks/gardens (Nprn265743).
(sources: RCAHMW 1991, 59-61;
Os495card; ST28NW15)
J.Wiles 11.02.03
