Owner Private | Condition Ruins | |
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Type Motte-and-bailey castle | ||
St Illtyd's Motte is the remains of a motte-and-bailey castle in the village of Llanhilleth, Blaenau Gwent, Wales. It was probably destroyed by Llywelyn the Great in the early thirteenth century and not rebuilt. The remnants are a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The surviving motte is a roughly circular steep-sided, flat-topped mound about 36 metres (118 ft) in diameter and 6.16 metres (20.2 ft) high. It is surrounded by a partially filled-in ditch that is 4–5 metres (13–16 ft) wide and 0.8 metres (2 ft 7 in) deep.
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