Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Camrose Mound & Bailey Castle
Camrose, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Motte and Bailey
- Period
- Medieval
- Date of designation
- 22 November 1950
- Community
- Camrose
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.83926, -5.01089
- SAM number
- PE217
- Cadw record number
- 3047
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 and bailey castle, a military stronghold built during the medieval period. A motte and bailey castle comprises a large conical or pyramidal mound of soil or stone (the motte) surrounded by, or adjacent to, one or more embanked enclosures (the bailey). Both may be surrounded by wet or dry ditches and could be further strengthened with palisades, revetments, and/or a tower on top of the motte. Camrose Mound & Bailey Castle measures 50ft across the top and 30ft high. It has old yew trees growing on top and saplings on its sides. It has been made into a garden feature with steps and dry stone walling around the top and bottom of the mound - but is quite derelict now. The bailey is on the north side of the road and is defended by a bank rising 12ft above a ditch.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of medieval defensive organisation. The well-preserved monument forms an important element within the wider medieval context and the structure itself may be expected to contain archaeological information relating to chronology, building techniques and functional detail.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Camrose MillDomesticunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding on N side of service yard at Camrose HouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Camrose HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding immediately E of Camrose HouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.