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St Clears Castle;Banc-y-Beili;Rhyd-y-Gors;St Clears Mound and Bailey Castle

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NPRN105023
Map ReferenceSN21NE
Grid ReferenceSN2809015420
Unitary (Local) AuthorityCarmarthenshire
Old CountyCarmarthenshire
CommunitySt Clears
Type Of SiteMOTTE
PeriodMedieval
Description
NAR SN21NE8

Earthworks thought to represent the castle, recorded as destroyed, 1215-16, associated with a borough, first mentioned in 1248: an oval mound, some 48m east-west by 38m, rising 12.2m to a level summit, some 15m by 10m, is set above a rectangular bailey enclosure, some 70m by 45m, defined by incomplete scarp lines, laid out on the south; these castle works are thought to have been integrated into, or subsumed by what appears to have been a borough enclosure (see Nprn105024).

J.Wiles 23.03.05