Llysoedd Gwynedd-  

This is exceptionally good. Thank you for producing a video about this rarely-discussed period of our history.

An interesting comment there about not having to defend against their own people, really struck out at me. I have been pondering about old mottes with no baileys and have come to a theory that they didnt actually need a bailey if the castle was Welsh, as the land is the support unit. The Normans had to bring their own support units and keep them defended in the baileys.

Would it be possible if you could do a video about Ewloe Castle ??

Interesting what you say about the English destroying sheaths and incorporating them into the new polity. I live in Norfolk, not far from from Castle Rising. Castle Rising is only a small castle, not much more than a keep on a motte and bailey plan. But when the curtain wall was built, the local village church was actually BURIED in it, presumably to be replaced by a new church within the grounds of the castle. So presumably the new church was firmly under the thumb of William de Warenne, William the Bastard's butler. Talk about oppression of the locals!