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Hen Domen castle


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)

Status: scheduled ancient monument

Country:  Wales

District:  Powys

Community:  Montgomery

Grid Reference:   SO213980

Map Reference:  [EPSG:27700] 321370, 298030

Period/Subject:  MULTIPERIOD - MULTIPLE SITE

Identifiers: 
[ADS] Depositor Id: CPAT165
[ADS] Associated Id: CPAT70538
[ADS] Associated Id: CPAT300262
[ADS] Associated Id: CPAT300263
[ADS] Associated Id: CPAT320281
[ADS] Associated Id: CPAT39365
[ADS] Associated Id: CPAT329526
[ADS] Associated Id: CPAT329527
[ADS] Import RCN: AW13-CPAT165

People Involved: 
[Publisher] Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust
[Creator] Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust

Bibliographic References: 

  • Barker, P & Higham, R, 1988, Hen Domen, Montgomery. A Timber Castle on the English-Welsh Border. Excavations 1960-1988. A Summary Report
  • Anon, 1867, title unknown - Hen Domen castle
  • 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 & Lawson, J, 1971, A pre-Norman field system at Hen Domen, Montgomery (<a href="http://www.cofiadurcahcymru.org.uk/arch/query/page.php?watprn=CPAT165&dbname=CPAT&tbname=core">digital source available</a>), Medieval Archaeology : 15 : 58-72
  • 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
  • Britnell, W J, Martin, C H R & Hankinson, R, 2000, Bro Trefaldwyn Historic Landscape: historic landscape characterization (<a href="http://www.cofiadurcahcymru.org.uk/arch/query/page.php?watprn=CPAT165&dbname=CPAT&tbname=core">digital source available</a>)
  • 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)
  • Caseldine, A, 1990, Environmental Archaeology in Wales
  • Cathcart King, D J & Spurgeon, C J, 1965, The Mottes in the Vale of Montgomery
  • Davies, John, 2006, Rhyd Chwima - The Ford at Montgomery - Aque Vadum de Mungumeri
  • 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
  • Higham, R & Barker, P, 2000, Hen Domen Montgomery: a timber castle on the English-Welsh border
  • Hurst & Wilson, 1964, title unknown - Hen Domen castle
  • Leonard, J, Preshous, D, Roberts, M, Smyth, J & 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, 1911, Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouth I - County of Montgomery
  • Seymour, W P, 1980, title unknown - Hen Domen castle
  • Spurgeon, C J, 1966, The castles of Montgomeryshire, The Montgomeryshire Collections : 58 : 1-59
  • Thomas, D, 1998, South Twyi/Irfon/Crychan/Glasfynydd Archaeological Assessment (<a href="http://www.cofiadurcahcymru.org.uk/arch/query/page.php?watprn=CPAT165&dbname=CPAT&tbname=core">digital source available</a>)
  • 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