Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ty-Newydd Mound & Bailey Castle
Llannor, Gwynedd, Wales
A scheduled monument in Llannor, Gwynedd, recorded as Motte and Bailey (Medieval).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Motte and Bailey
- Period
- Medieval
- Community
- Llannor
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.91661, -4.46044
- SAM number
- CN096
- Cadw record number
- 559
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1830 map "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 118 Nevin (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Monument.
The remains of a medieval earthwork castle consisting of a motte with slight traces of a bailey.
The top of the motte is 6m above the bottom of the surrounding ditch, and is 8m in diameter. On the W, where best preserved, the ditch and counterscarp bank are 12m wide, and the top of the bank is 2m above the bottom of the ditch and 1.5m above the outer ground level. The bank has been levelled on the E side. Slight traces of a bank are visible in the field to the E, possibly the outer wall of the bailey. Before the present Tŷ Newydd was built in the 17th century an earlier house stood in this field.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of medieval settlement and defence. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits. The structures themselves may be expected to contain archaeological information concerning chronology and building techniques.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- GwnhingerDomesticunder 1 mi
- Hay Barn at MelaAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Pont-y-pandy and causewayTransportunder 1 mi
- Tirgwyn Standing StonesStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.