Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Wentloog Castle
Marshfield, Newport, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Motte
- Period
- Medieval
- Community
- Marshfield
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.54515, -3.08098
- SAM number
- MM131
- Cadw record number
- 363
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 comprises the remains of a motte dating to the medieval period (c. 1066 -1540 AD). The site consists of a steep-sided flat-topped circular mound around 5m high, measuring around 25m in diameter across the base and 14m across the summit. The motte has been landscaped and turned into a garden feature, with a path created up the S side of the mound to the summit which has been levelled and a seating area and flower beds formed. The sides of the motte are covered in Rhododendrons and yew trees.
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
- Castleton Baptist ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The Coach and Horses PHCommercialunder 1 mi
- Gelli-ber FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Druidstone Standing StoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.