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Crug Eryr Mound and Bailey Castle is a motte and bailey fortification located in Radnorshire, Wales, and forms part of the significant defensive landscape of the Anglo-Norman frontier during the medieval period. The site comprises a substantial earthen mound with an associated bailey enclosure, characteristic of the rapid fortification strategy employed by Norman settlers and their Welsh allies in the Welsh Marches during the twelfth century. Such fortifications typically served administrative and military functions, controlling communication routes and territorial holdings across this contested region. The earthwork survives as an important archaeological record of early medieval castle development and the complex patterns of settlement and lordship that emerged in post-Conquest Wales.
Crug Eryr Mound and Bailey Castle is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference RD003. View the official record →
Crug Eryr Mound and Bailey Castle is a motte and bailey fortification located in Radnorshire, Wales, and forms part of the significant defensive landscape of the Anglo-Norman frontier during the medieval period. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference RD003.
Crug Eryr Mound and Bailey Castle dates from the medieval period, and is classified as a motte and bailey. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across Britain.
Crug Eryr Mound and Bailey Castle is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is RD003.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Penarth Mount Castle Mound (7.5 km), Six Stones Stone Circle (7.6 km), Cefn Wylfre Round Barrows (8.4 km).
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