Current Archaeology

AD 1300 - Rhosyr - A Welsh Princes Palace - Page 4

A guided Tour of the Llys

 Here we can begin to see the plan of how the llys was laid out.
The palace buildings lay in a walled courtyard - the surrounding wall still survived three feet high in places.
The entrance was through a gateway to the right. A path then leads up to the great central hall, seen on the previous page. It overlies an earlier, smaller hall.
To the south is an adjacent chamber: note the curving passageway leading to another room not yet excavated in the south east corner. We shall see this in our next page. In the north east corner is a subsidiary building, excavated this last summer.