Clark, George Thomas, 1809-1898 · London, Wyman & sons · leaf 385
d, theshortest, and within memory the ordinary, way from Gelligaer andMerthyr to Brecon, passes about half a mile north-east of the castle,and was completely commanded by it. The ground-plan of Morlais is very simple. A court, of an irre-gular oval shape, 140 yards north and south, by 60 yards east… … Morlais Castle, Glamorgan. 313 though recently quarried into a cliff. The only remaining entranceto the court is on the east side, through a narrow archway in thecurtain, which could only have admitted infantry, and which isapproached by a steep path and a causeway across the moat. Abroader…
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