Llywelyn ap Gruffudd built Dolforwyn Castle near Montgomery without royal licence as an assertion of Welsh authority in the middle March. Roger Mortimer besieged and took it in eleven days at the start of the First Welsh War 1277. The castle's fall symbolised the crumbling of Llywelyn's power in the March. Archaeological excavation of Dolforwyn in the 1990s recovered valuable evidence of the siege and the castle's brief Welsh use.
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