Barclodiad-y-Gawres — Open Doors this weekend

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Evergreen Dazed Sep 25, 2013 19:30:02
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I think I may have it. castell tomen-y-mur.
A roman fort with a large norman motte. Burial mounds in the vicinity apparently but you said the mound was large so may very well have been the motte.
Path starts across the road from a parking area near Trawsfynydd. Goes through woodland and emerges near the fort.

S Sanctuary
Sanctuary Sep 25, 2013 20:46:33
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Evergreen Dazed wrote:
I think I may have it. castell tomen-y-mur.
A roman fort with a large norman motte. Burial mounds in the vicinity apparently but you said the mound was large so may very well have been the motte.
Path starts across the road from a parking area near Trawsfynydd. Goes through woodland and emerges near the fort.
I didn't see anything else other than the mound, but then again I was hardly out of broken cover from the wood where the two stones were either side of the track and only looking ahead when I experienced this strange feeling and not able to continue. From where I was the mound was I would say roughly about the same size as the barrow across the A4 on Overton Hill from the Sanctuary. At no time did I see any other signs indicating there was a Roman Fort on offer.