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Castell y Dail Placename, Newton

Has been described as a Rejected Timber Castle (Motte)

There are no visible remains

Name	Castell y Dail Placename, Newton
Alternative Names	Dulas Meadow
Historic Country	Montgomeryshire
Modern Authority	Powys
1974 Authority	Powys
Community	Newton and Llanllwchaiarn

A farm one and two thirds mile south-south-west of Newtown. A tumulus is said to have stood upon a field called Dulas Meadow, but the term 'castell' would apply more naturally to a defensive mound. An urn was discovered here about the year 1817 ( Mont. Coll., 1870, iii, 428). (RCAHMW)

Gatehouse Comments

Castell y Dail - castle of the leaves. A cruck framed medieval farmhouse survives at the farm.Despite this entry in the Inventory no other author has even considered to mention this site, even as a reject. The find of an urn suggests this was a burial mound. However, the placename need not necessarily relate to that mound or that mound may have had some later reuse, possibly as a farmstead motte symbolically representing the knightly status of a tenant. The most likely explanation, however, is this farm takes its name from Castell y Dail hillfort at SO09438971 which may well have been wooded in the medieval period and the mound was a burial mound associated with that hill fort.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

County Historic Environment Record

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OS Map Grid Reference	SO096899
Latitude	52.4994010925293
Longitude	-3.33309006690979
Eastings	309600
Northings	289900