NAR SN23SW6

'Heron's Castle': the embanked motte encloses an area some 24m across, showing a clear causewayed entrance into the banked & ditched bailey enclosure on the west, which is some 70m north-west to south-east by 38m: the earthworks on the west, where the bailey rests on a stream, may represent some form of water management feature (a mill, or fishpond).

Motte and bailey castle in very good state of preservation. The castle mound rises 20ft (6.1m) above the encircling ditch. The mound is saucer shaped and the interior is 12ft (3.6m) below the edges. Bailey bank exists on north and south On the west the ground is scarped.
Source: Extract from Cadw FMW report, 1950.
FF 10/06/2004