
What is recorded here
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 50m) on the 1837 and 1915 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the bottom of a N-facing slope in a slight E-W valley. Described in 1972 as a circular area (diam. c. 40m) defined by a fosse (Wth of top c. 4m; D c. 0.3m) (SMR file). It is no longer visible at ground level in a scrub-covered area which remains unplanted in a coniferous forest.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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