Craig Ruperra Motte
Has been described as a Certain Timber Castle (Motte)
There are earthwork remains
| Name | Craig Ruperra Motte |
| Alternative Names | Castell Breiniog; Castell y ddraenen; Coed Craig Ruperra; Castell Breiniol; Remmi; Remni; Rubina |
| Historic Country | Glamorgan |
| Modern Authority | Caerphilly |
| 1974 Authority | Mid Glamorgan |
| Community | Rudry |
A roughly circular mound 32m in diameter and 6m high surrounded by a ditch and counterscarp bank, well-defined on the N and W but apparently slighter on the S and E, though partly obscured here by masking vegetation. Located at the NE end of a hillfort. Motte re-used as a landscape feature, with a revetted spiral path (extant) leading to a summerhouse, built before 1785, not noted 1875, upon the summit. (Coflein)
Suggested by Armitage as possible site of castle Remmi or Remni mentioned in Pipe Roll of 1184. Country Life records a letter of Rev. W. Watkins, c1762, recording the bizarre discovery of an erect skeleton in a room 2.5m square during the digging of the foundations of a summer-house at Ruperra (Owen, Edward (ed), 1922, Catalogue of MSS Relating to Wales in the British Museum Vol. 4 p. 847)
Not scheduled
Not Listed
The National Monument Record (Coflein) number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
| OS Map Grid Reference | ST223866 |
| Latitude | 51.5737609863281 |
| Longitude | -3.12205004692078 |
| Eastings | 322330 |
| Northings | 186670 |
