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Green Castle, Crinow; Clyn Pattel, C Rinow

Motte

What is recorded here

Green Castle rises in Crinow as a medieval motte, its earthworks still shaping the Pembrokeshire landscape long after human hands stopped building. The mound may have hidden a tower, a guard room or a family home, yet no exact chamber survives in the facts. A person standing there at dusk would have felt the weight of that much forgotten life, not the pride of a finished story.
The National Monuments Record of Wales records Green Castle, Crinow; Clyn Pattel, C Rinow 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 during the Medieval period, Green Castle (Clyn Pattel) is a motte recorded in the National Monuments Record of Wales, reflecting Norman influence in the region. Its importance lies in its role as a strategic defensive structure in the landscape of early medieval Wales.

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