Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Castle Mound 800m NNW of Ty'n-y-Caeau
Brecon, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Brecon, Powys, recorded as Motte (Medieval).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Motte
- Period
- Medieval
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.95606, -3.35450
- SAM number
- BR046
- Cadw record number
- 1717
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 213 Brecon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of a Motte and ditch, dating to the medieval period (c. 1066 -1540 AD). A Motte is a large conical or pyramidal mound of soil and/or stone, usually surrounded by either a wet or dry ditch, originally surmounted by a tower constructed of timber or stone. The Castle Mound is circular in plan, around 18m in diameter and 2m high with a flat summit approximately 12m in diameter. On the western side of the mound are the faint traces of a ditch, but this is not visible around the whole circumference of the Motte. There are no traces of a bailey or of structures on the summit of the monument.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of medieval defensive practices. The monument is well-preserved and an important relic of the medieval landscape. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of both structural evidence and intact associated deposits.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- AlexanderstoneDomesticunder 1 mi
- Alexanderstone Mound and Bailey CastleMotte and Baileyunder 1 mi
- Slwch FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn and outbuildings range to SW of Slwch FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.