Welcome to the Oystermouth Castle Community Dig
Oystermouth Castle is a familiar site in Swansea. It was rescued in the middle of the 19th century by local antiquary George Grant Francis, who employed workmen at his own expense to clear out the rubble and restore the walls, including a painstaking reconstruction of the chapel window from fragments of fallen tracery. It is thanks to him that we still have the building to enjoy. Read more about the history of the castle
Public Involvement
These web pages have been created to provide you with information about the Oystermouth Castle Project, our aim is to give the project a strong public archaeology element which we hope you will enjoy. We will be arranging site visits for the general public, schools and local archaeology groups. Volunteers working on the project will have the opportunity to make their voice heard, in the form of journal entries - textual, visual, or audio -which can be viewed elsewhere on this site.
This gives context to our work, hopefully interesting the wider public, and we hope it will help us in our post excavation work.