What is recorded here
Marked as a circular bivallate embanked enclosure on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is located on the level landscape of the Hook peninsula. It was described in 1987 as a circular area defined by an earthen bank of irregular dimensions, within which was a wet sunken area, rising to a dry mound towards centre (SMR file). It was subsequently reduced to a flat topped, oval, grass-covered mound (dims. 22m NE-SW; 13m NW;SE; H 1 2m) surrounded by a berm of wet uncultivated land (Wth 15-21m). It is a possibly barrow. The S end of linear earthwork (WX049-015002-) is c. c. 30m to the ENE.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX049-015001
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Photo credits
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Sean O Briain, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Tim Kirby, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Ianfhunter, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Alex Passmore, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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