Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Llwynduris Castle Mound
Beulah, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Motte
- Period
- Medieval
- Date of designation
- 12 July 1950
- Community
- Beulah
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.06022, -4.57191
- SAM number
- CD009
- Cadw record number
- 765
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (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, and surmounted by a tower constructed of timber or stone. Llwynduris Castle Mound is a steep-sided circular mound measuring c.35m in diameter and between 5.8m and 10.2m high, with a summit c.10m across containing a hollow c.2m by 1m. The site occupies a knoll isolated by minor watercourses to the north and south and facing out across the Teifi flood-plain to the west. A ditch is present where the ground rises away from the site on the east.
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
- Milestone on A484 SW of LlandygwyddTransportunder 1 mi
- The Old VicarageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Oakhill, PenylanAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Onnen-Deg Defended SettlementPromontory Fort - inlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.