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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
Embanked enclosure
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What is recorded here

Marked as an oval embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 50m N-S; c. 35m E-W) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle SE-facing slope. This is an irregularly-shaped, grass-covered platform (dims 31.5m N-S; 31.5m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.7m) which has been cut back on all sides by quarrying and with a pond at S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.

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