Llangadfan Motte

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Cann Office Hotel

In the community of Banwy.
In the historic county of Montgomeryshire (Modern authority of Powys, preserved county of Powys).

A mound, the SE half of which has been levelled, 4.0m high and perhaps originally 24m in diameter. "Bronze instruments" are said to have come from the levelled part of the mound. To the S an angle of scarping (at SJ01181067) may, if not a product of garden landscaping, indicate an enclosure c.54m by 46m. Three sides of a rectilinear enclosure, 47m by at least 35m, ditched at the E angle, defined elsewhere by scarps. Trenching in 1962 produced med. pottery.

This site has been described as a;
Timber Castle.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Earthworks remains.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SJ01181073

Modern Map from

Good for landscape form and features

Modern Map from

Good for general location

Air Photo from

1st edition OS Map from

Sources of information, references and further reading

National Monuments Record number; 306526, 306527

County Sites and Monuments Record number; 1228

Books

Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles of Mid Wales (Malvern) p41
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p298
RCAHMW, 1911, An Inventory of Ancient Monuments in Montgomeryshire (HMSO) p99 No507

Journal Articles

Jones, G.D.B. and Putnam, W.J., 1966. ‘Earthwork at Cann Office’ Montgomeryshire Collections Vol59 p155-8
Spurgeon, C.J., 1966, ‘The castles of Montgomeryshire’ Montgomeryshire Collections Vol58 p8
Hogg, A.H.A. and King, D.J.C., 1963, 'Early castles in Wales and the Marches: a preliminary list' Archaeologia Cambrensis Vol112 p77-124
O'Neil, B.H. St J., 1932, Montgomeryshire Collections Vol42 p126-31 [plan]
Edwards, 1869, Montgomeryshire Collections Vol2 p326-7

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