What is recorded here

St Mary Yard Mound is a castle in Monmouthshire, Wales. It is not a tall tower or a broad rampart, but a mound, perhaps the last visible part of a building that time and soil have swallowed. A castle on a mound suggests men who wanted to be seen from a distance, to mark ownership or warn others that the land had masters. The mound still does that work, though its rooms and gates have disappeared.

St Mary Yard Mound is shown as a castle on the public map of Monmouthshire. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.

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