The Gatehouse website record for Llangwm Uchaf

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Camp House; Beiliau Llangwm

In the community of Llangwm. In the historic county of Monmouthshire (Modern authority of Monmouthshire, preserved county of Gwent).

The remains of a ring motte now incorporated into a private garden at the rear of Camp House. Some of the scarps shown on the last published OS map have now gone - the remaining ditch on the S and the nearby scarp of the ring bank. An oval enclosure, c.14-16m in diameter, embanked and formerly ditched.
'The interpretation of the site .. is very difficult given the limited and contradictory evidence available. The most likely interpretation is that the site was a watch-tower with a limited directional advantage. It is not possible to assign the site to a period but it is less likely that it was a late construction as it would have been too small for residential purposes.' (Phillips)
The current low motte is damaged and much of it may well be missing. It is possible that this may have been a fundamental symbolic motte, associated with a 'knights fee' farmstead and the residential building were in a 'bailey', the site of the current house, for which some slight topographical evidence survives.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is ST42759979

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's National Monument Record (Coflein) number is 221427
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is 01123g 'grey' literature, such as watching brief reports, held by H.E.R.s is often poorly referenced and is unlikely to be recorded in this website.

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