Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Fforest Wood Mound & Bailey Castle
Glascwm, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Motte and Bailey
- Period
- Medieval
- Community
- Glascwm
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.16706, -3.31616
- SAM number
- RD075
- Cadw record number
- 1934
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 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. The Forest Wood site lies at the foot of a north-west facing slope at a river confluence. It consists of a motte, measuring c.29m in diameter at the base, which stands c.4m high on the uphill (south-eastern) side and c.7m high on the downhill side, and is surrounded by a ditch. To its south lies a bailey measuring c.30m by c.15m, defined on its east and west sides by natural gullies and on the south by an artificial scarp.
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
- Cwmblaenerw Enclosed Long HutLonghouseunder 1 mi
- Colwyn CastleMotte and Baileyunder 1 mi
- Fforest FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cwmblaenerw House PlatformsHouse Platformunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.