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Hen Domen castle, occupation site

Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 165
Trust : Clwyd Powys
Community : Montgomery
Unitary authority : Powys
NGR : SO21379803
Site Type (preferred type first) : MULTIPERIOD OCCUPATION SITE
Status : scheduled monument

Summary :
Multiple site for Hen Domen motte and bailey overlying possible Saxon field system which overlies earlier building.

Description :
Multiple site for Hen Domen motte and bailey overlying possible Saxon field system which overlies earlier building. Excavation since 1960 by P Barker. See also PRN 4035.

Pollen sampling site (Caseldine, A 1990, 131).

Motte and bailey castle. the Motte being c 30m across and lying at the Western end of a bailey c 120m by 84m (Thomas D, 1998b)

Scheduled (Cadw 2002)

Sources :
Anon , 1867 , title unknown - Hen Domen castle
Barker, P & Higham, R , 1988 , Hen Domen, Montgomery. A Timber Castle on the English-Welsh Border. Excavations 1960-1988. A Summary Report ( © Barker, P & Higham, R)
Barker, P A , 1961 , Hen Domen
Barker, P A , 1962 , Hen Domen , Archaeology in Wales : 2 : 17
Barker, P A , 1963 , Hen Domen , Archaeology in Wales : 3 : 20
Barker, P A , 1964 , Hen Domen , Archaeology in Wales : 4 : 21
Barker, P A , 1965 , Hen Domen , Archaeology in Wales : 5 : 33
Barker, P A , 1966 , Hen Domen , Archaeology in Wales : 6 : 22
Barker, P A , 1967 , Hen Domen , Archaeology in Wales : 7 : 17
Barker, P A , 1968 , Hen Domen , Archaeology in Wales : 8 : 25
Barker, P A , 1969 , Hen Domen , Chateau Gaillard : 3 : 15-27
Barker, P A , 1969 , Hen Domen , Archaeology in Wales : 9 : 27
Barker, P A , 1970 , Hen Domen , Archaeology in Wales : 10 : 27
Barker, P A , 1972 , Hen Domen , Archaeology in Wales : 12 : 39-40
Barker, P A , 1973 , Hen Domen , Archaeology in Wales : 13 : 54
Barker, P A , 1976 , Hen Domen , West Midlands Archaeology Newsletter : 19 : 66-8
Barker, P A , 1977 , Hen Domen , West Midlands Archaeology Newsletter : 20 : 83
Barker, P A , 1977 , Hen Domen, 1969-70 , Archaeological Journal : 134 : 101-105
Barker, P A & Lawson, J , 1971 , A pre-Norman field system at Hen Domen, Montgomery , Medieval Archaeology : 15 : 58-72
Britnell, W. J., Martin, C. H. R., & Hankinson, R , 2000 , Bro Trefaldwyn Historic Landscape: historic landscape characterization ( © Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust)
Cadw , 1986 , Scheduling map - Mg 013(POW)
Cadw , 1987 , Cadw scheduling description - Mg 013(POW)
Cadw , 1993 , Cadw Field Monument Wardens Report - Mg 013(POW)
Cadw , 2002 , Cadw Field Monument Wardens Report - Mg 013(POW)
Cadw , 2013 , Scheduled Monument consent letter
Caseldine, A , 1990 , Environmental Archaeology in Wales
Cathcart King, D J & Spurgeon, C J , 1965 , The Mottes in the Vale of Montgomery
Clark, G T , 1877 , The moated mounds of the upper Severn , The Montgomeryshire Collections : 10 : 329-48
Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust , 1978 , Site visit record - PRN165
Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust , 1985 , CPAT Project Archive
Davies, John , 2006 , Rhyd Chwima - The Ford at Montgomery - Aque Vadum de Mungumeri
Higham, R., A., & Barker, P., A., 2000 , Hen Domen, Montgomery: A timber castle on the English-Welsh border
Hurst & Wilson , 1964 , title unknown - Hen Domen castle
Kenyon, John R , 2012 , Castle Studies and Montgomeryshire: an Appreciation , The Montgomeryshire Collections : 100 : 87-99
Leonard, J., Preshous, D., Roberts, M., Smyth, J., and Train, C., 2000 , The Gale of Life: Two Thousand Years in South-West Shropshire
Moore, D , 1997 , Thomas Pennant's Vision of the Landscape , Archaeologia Cambrensis : 146 : 138-177
Ordnance Survey , 1973 , OS record card SO29NW 8
Ordnance Survey , 1973 , OS record card SO29NW 8
Ordnance Survey , 1980 , OS record card SO29NW 8
Ordnance Survey , 1981 , OS record card S029NW 8
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales and Monmouthshire , 1911 , Inventory of the Ancient and Historical Monuments of the County of Montgomery ( © Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales and Monmouthshire)
Seymour, W P , 1980 , title unknown - Hen Domen castle
Spurgeon, C. J , 1966 , The castles of Montgomeryshire , The Montgomeryshire Collections : 58 : 1-59
Webster, L E & Cherry, J , 1976 , Medieval Britain and Ireland in 1975 , Medieval Archaeology : 20 : 158-201
Webster, L E & Cherry, J , 1977 , title unknown - Hen Domen castle
Webster, L E & Cherry, J , 1978 , title unknown - Hen Domen castle
Welsh Office Ancient Monuments Branch , 1974 , Schedule of Ancient Monuments in Wales
Welsh Office Ancient Monuments Branch , 1980 , Cadw scheduling description - Mg 013(POW)
Welsh Office Ancient Monuments Branch , 1980 , Scheduling map - Mg 013(POW)
Welsh Office Ancient Monuments Branch , 1981 , Schedule of Ancient Monuments in Wales
Wilson, D M & Moorhouse, S , 1971 , Medieval Britain in 1970 , Medieval Archaeology : 15 : 124-179

Events :
70538 : Hen Domen castle, excavation 1960-92 (year : 1967)
39365 : Historic Landscape Characterisation, Vale of Montgomery 1999-2000 (year : 1999-2000)

Related records
CPAT Historic Environment Record (HER) 165

Compiled date : 01-01-1980


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March 31, 2025, 11:21 am - File produced for Archwilio from CPAT's Regional HER.
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