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exterior walls appear to have been about 

 four feet in tbicknefs. A fmall part of 

 the north wall, with fome trifling remains 

 of the interior, -are yet left. The fouth 

 and eaft walls are entirely demolimed, and 

 the other parts that are yet ftanding, are in 

 fo mattered a condition, that it feemed as if 

 a ftrong wind might almoft level the whole 

 with the ground. I was informed that 

 fome perfons in digging amongft the ruins 

 a little time before I was here, had met 

 with a few reddifh earthen veflels and fome 

 coins, but what thefe were I could not 

 learn. 



It is not known, with any degree of cer- 

 tainty, to whom the foundation of Caftell 

 Dolforwyn ought to be attributed; Dug- 

 dale * has given it to David ap Llewelyn, 

 a prince, who reigned in North Wales 

 from 1 240 to 1 246 ; Stow f to Llewelyn 



* Monafticon Anglicanum, II. 223. 

 t Stow's Annals, p. 200. 



himfelf; 



