Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Dolbedwin Castle Mound
Gladestry, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Gladestry, Powys, recorded as Motte (Medieval).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Motte
- Period
- Medieval
- Community
- Gladestry
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.13439, -3.16201
- SAM number
- RD099
- Cadw record number
- 1947
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 197 Hay (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (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 monument comprises the remains of a possible motte, dating to the medieval period (c. 1066 -1540 AD). A motte is a large conical or pyramidal mound of soil and/or stone, usually surrounded by either a wet or dry ditch, and surmounted by a tower constructed of timber or stone. This feature occupies a north-west facing spur above the confluence of the Cwmila Brook with a minor stream. It is roughly circular with a square top, and is c.38m in diameter and up to c.6m high. It was described as having an encircling ditch in 1858 but this is no longer in evidence. There has been some damage on the north-west.
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
- DolbedwinDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn Range to SW of Tyn-y-CwmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Tyn-y-CwmDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gaer Roman SiteEnclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.