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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
Embanked enclosure
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What is recorded here

Towards the bottom of the steep SE-facing slope of a NE-SW drumlin ridge. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 32m E-W; 27m N-S) defined by a gapped and overgrown earthen bank (at SW: Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.6m; at NW: Wth 6m; int. H 1.9m; ext. H 0.7m) SW-W-NE, and an outer fosse re-cut as a drain (Wth of base 2m; D 0.4m) W-N. There is no evidence of the perimeter NE-E-SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.

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