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Castle Madoc, Mound

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Castle Madoc, Mound
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Castle Madoc, Mound stands in Powys, Wales, as a Medieval motte recorded in the national monument register. Earth and stone still mark the site where human hands shaped the land during the Medieval period. The mound may have supported a residence, a watch post, or a boundary marker, yet no surviving account names the people who built it or the events that ended its use.
The National Monuments Record of Wales records Castle Madoc, Mound as Motte from the Medieval period. The saved point comes from the official national record. Inclusion does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Built by the Normans during the Medieval period, Castle Madoc, Mound is remembered as a motte that reflects early medieval military architecture and the Norman expansion into Wales.

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