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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Towards the top of a NW-facing slope. Circular overgrown area (diam. 50.3m N-S; 49.6m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.2-4.8m; int. H 0.1-0.25m; ext. H 1-1.1m) and outer rounded fosse (at NW: Wth of top 4.4m; Wth of base 2m; D 0.15m), which has been truncated slightly by an E-W field bank at S, while the bank is reduced to a scarp (H 1.05m) and the fosse is missing NNW-NE. There are entrances at NNW (Wth 2.4m) and NNE (Wth 2.2m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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