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Rhuddlan Town Defences
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Cledemutha
In the community of Rhuddlan.
In the historic county of Flintshire (Modern authority
of Denbighshire, preserved county of Clwyd).
Good remains of two sets of Angular earthworks built to defend the Norman and then the Edwardian Town. A defensive circuit consisting of two lines of bank with a medial ditch, remains consist of a ditch, up to 20m wide and 2.5m deep, runs NNW-SSE for c.570m, before turning to run SW for c.300m as a bank, 24m wide and 1.0m high, to terminate above the Clwyd. Of those defences previously thought to be the remains of C10 burgh defences, a more recent interpretation compares this work with the known Edwardian late C13 earthwork circuits at Rhuddlan and Flint. It is suggested that the remains are of a circuit constructed in the course of Edward I's initial campaign of conquest in 1277.
This site is a scheduled
monument protected by law.
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid
Reference is SJ02267829
National Monuments Record number; 300415, 306672
County Sites and Monuments Record number; 13116 et al
Books
- Creighton, O.H. and Higham, R.A., 2005, Medieval Town Walls (Stroud: Tempus) p27, 39, 74, 99, 101, 159-61, 217, 275, 279
Pettifer, Adrian, 2000, Welsh Castles, A Guide by Counties (Boydell Press) p76
Salter, Mike, 1997, The Castles of North Wales (Malvern) p81
Bond, C.J., 1987, 'Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Defences', in Schofield, J. and Leech, R. (eds) Urban Archaeology in Britain (CBA Research Report) p92-116 [plan]
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p156
Fry, P.S., 1980, Castles of the British Isles (David and Charles) p377
Barley M.W., 1975, 'Town Defences in England and Wales after 1066' in Barley (ed) Medieval Towns in England and Wales (CBA research reports) pp57-71
Journal Articles
- Quinnell, H. and Blockley, M.R., 1994, Excavations at Rhuddlan, Clwyd 1969-73: Mesolithic to Medieval (London: CBA Research Report 95) p212-3, 219-20
Manley, J.F., 1987. ‘Cledemutha: a Late Saxon burh in North Wales’ Medieval Archaeology Vol31 p13-46 [downloadable via http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/resources.html?medarch]
Manley, J.F. 1983, ‘Rhuddlan’ Archaeology in Wales Vol23 p58
Manley, J.F. 1982, ‘Rhuddlan’ Current Archaeology Vol81 p304-7
J.F.M(anley), 1981, Programme of the 128th Annual Meeting of the Cambrian Archaeological Association p9, 16
Manley, J.F. 1980, ‘Rhuddlan’, Archaeology in Wales Vol20 p59-62
Manley, J.F. 1980 ‘Excavations at Rhuddlan, Clwyd, 1979-80’, Archaeology in Clwyd p9-10
Manley, J.F. 1979. ‘Rhuddlan town ditch. Clwyd’. CPAT Review of Projects 12
Manley, J.F. 1979, ‘Rhuddlan’, Archaeology in Wales Vol19 p39
(Miles), 1973, Medieval Archaeology Vol17 p173 [downloadable via http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/resources.html?medarch]
Miles, H., 1972, 'Rhuddlan' Current Archaeology Vol32 p245-8
Miles, H., 1971-2, 'Excavations at Rhuddlan, 1969-71: interim report' Flintshire Historical Society Vol25 p1-8
(Miles), 1971, Medieval Archaeology Vol15 p158 [downloadable via http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/resources.html?medarch]
(Miles), 1970, Medieval Archaeology Vol14 p186, 188 [downloadable via http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/resources.html?medarch]
Hogg, A.H.A. and King, D.J.C., 1967, 'Masonry castles in Wales and the Marches: a list' Archaeologia Cambrensis Vol116 p71-132
Edwards, J. Goronwy, 1944, 'Edward I's Castle-Building in Wales' Proceedings of the British Academy Vol32 p32-7
Guidebooks
- Taylor, A.J., 2004, Rhuddlan Castle (CADW)
Taylor, A.J., 1987 (4th rev edn), Rhuddlan Castle (CADW)
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