It definitely doesn't look big enough for a proper castle. I think even our tiniest local castle (Dolwyddelan) is bigger than that.
It may just be the darkness of the photo, but it doesn't seem to grow out of the rock like the castles I'm familiar with. It's sort of plonked in the grass. And if it were the one remaining tower of something larger, there would be traces. We used to keep our dustbins in a castle tower when we were wardens of the Youth Hostel in Crickhowell. The rest of the castle was a little distance away in the park and the hostel building was built over an old medieval cellar, which meant that the cellar had a cellar!
It's still a splendid tower though and must have an interesting history, even if it doesn't date back to the Middle Ages.
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Date: 2011-02-19 03:50 pm (UTC)It may just be the darkness of the photo, but it doesn't seem to grow out of the rock like the castles I'm familiar with. It's sort of plonked in the grass. And if it were the one remaining tower of something larger, there would be traces. We used to keep our dustbins in a castle tower when we were wardens of the Youth Hostel in Crickhowell. The rest of the castle was a little distance away in the park and the hostel building was built over an old medieval cellar, which meant that the cellar had a cellar!
It's still a splendid tower though and must have an interesting history, even if it doesn't date back to the Middle Ages.