Prestatyn Castle

An earth mound, visible in fields to the south of the Prestatyn railway station, near Nant Hall, marks the site of an early wooden motte and bailey castle. Prestatyn Castle occupies a low-lying position, but still commands a view across much of the flat coastal plain and guarded the coast road between Rhuddlan and Chester.^[2] The only remains of the castle are a raised mound about 20 m (66 ft) in diameter surrounded by a ditch. The bailey enclosed the whole of the motte, an unusual arrangement. A slightly raised causeway extends to the south but there is no sign of what entrance arrangements were present, nor of what structure originally topped the mound. Excavations that took place around 1913 revealed that the bailey was surrounded by a substantial stone wall about 1.2 m (4 ft) thick.^[3]

Bibliography

• Armitage, Ella (1912), The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles, John Murray
• Farrer, William; Brownbill, J. (eds) (1906), Victoria County History of Lancashire Vololume 1 {{citation}}: |first2= has generic name (help)

• Bibliography of sources relating to Prestatyn Castle

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