Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Plas Baglan
Baglan, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Castle
- Period
- Medieval
- Community
- Baglan
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.61571, -3.79786
- SAM number
- GM358
- Cadw record number
- 318
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (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 consists of the remains of a castle or fortified house, dating to the medieval period. Plas Baglan resides on an artificially levelled rectangular piece of ground defended on the west and south by steep natural slopes. Across the north and part of the east sides a ditch has been constructed. On top are the remains of a rectangular building, orientated north-north-west by south-south-east with measurements of 14m by 12m. It has turf-covered walls 2m wide and 1m high, in the north, west and east. Abutting the building on the east is a small courtyard. The entrance was on the south-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
- Old church of St BaglanReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Ruins of St Baglan's ChurchChurchunder 1 mi
- Church of St CatharineReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Footbridge and walls of Baglan brook around churchyard of St CatharineMiscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.