Gortycavan Mound
Topics:
Gortycavan Road
Articlave
BT51 4UF
United Kingdom
Additional Information
Open to the public:
No
Grid reference:
C7915031540
SM number:
LDY 007:001
About Gortycavan Mound
The mound, with a slightly dished summit, has traces of a bank round its edge and is surrounded by a ditch and outer bank. Though somewhat like a motte, it is likely to be a pre-Norman raised rath, dating to the first millennium AD. A mound in Big Glebe 21/2 miles (4km) north-west, now levelled, was shown by excavation to be pre-Norman.
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