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Plas Baglan

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NPRN307236
Map ReferenceSS79SE
Grid ReferenceSS7562092290
Unitary (Local) AuthorityNeath Port Talbot
Old CountyGlamorgan
CommunityBaglan
Type Of SiteMASONRY CASTLE
PeriodMedieval
Description
NAR SS79SE6
The SW end of a blunt spur has been scarped to form a rectangular platform, 24m E-W by c.22m, ditched to the N and E, with traces of mortared stone walling, including a 17.4m (N-S) by 10m tower or hall block; thought to have been built in the later 12th or e.13th c. and occupied until the e.17th c.
Source: RCAHMW 1991 Glamorgan III.1a 'the Earlier Castles', UW5 149-52.
J.Wiles 03.12.02