St Clears Castle;Banc-y-Beili;Rhyd-y-Gors;St Clears Mound and Bailey Castle — Report the wrong picture

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St Clears Castle rose as a motte-and-bailey stronghold where the Taf and Cynin rivers met, marking the far reach of navigable water during the Norman conquest of Wales. Rhys ap Gruffydd captured it in 1153, lost it to William de Braose in 1195, and Llywelyn ap Iorwerth destroyed it in 1215 before English forces retook it in 1223. Owain Glyndŵr seized the ruined shell in 1405, but English victory at St Clears the next year ended its military life. Today only a broad earthen mound and faint bailey traces remain, holding the shape of repeated conquest and abandonment.

The National Monuments Record of Wales records St Clears Castle;Banc-y-Beili;Rhyd-y-Gors;St Clears Mound and Bailey Castle 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.

St Clears Castle, also known as Banc-y-Beili or Rhyd-y-Gors, is a medieval motte-and-bailey castle, likely built in the 12th or 13th century by Norman settlers expanding into south-west Wales. It is remembered as an example of early medieval military architecture and as evidence of Norman influence in the region.

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