SIMON'S CASTLE; SYMON'S CASTLE

Site Details

NPRN
94940
Map Reference
SO29SE
Grid Reference
SO2857893320
Unitary (Local) Authority
Powys
Old County
Montgomeryshire
Community
Churchstoke
Type of Site
MOTTE AND BAILEY
Broad Class
Defence
Period
Medieval

Site Description

An embanked motte, 40m by c.50m, 4.5m high, with a summit, 22m by 30m, truncated to the SW by quarrying, seperated from a bailey platform to the NE, 28m by15m, by a ditch.
(source OS495 card; SO29SE7)
RCAHMW AP955029/58-9
J.Wiles 10.09.2002