What is recorded here

Knocklong West holds a forgotten circular platform, measuring seventeen by fifteen metres, tucked between a watercourse and a railway track. It resisted mapping in 1837 but emerged on later charts as a raised earthwork, suggesting human hands shaped the land before records caught up. The site still whispers through faint cropmarks and shadowed scars in the pasture, inviting imagination about who built it and why they chose that hidden spot.

In reclaimed pasture immediately N of a watercourse and 350m S of a railway track. Knocklong fort (LI040-087----) lies 120m to SE. No indicated in 1837 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Depicted as a raised roughly circular-shaped platform (dims. c. 17m N-S x 15m E-W) defined by a scarp on OSi 25-inch map. Outline of earthwork visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12. Faint trace of a roughly circular-shaped cropmark visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 19/09/2019. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 14 June 2021

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