What is recorded here
Fort Field in Dorsy or Roxborough, County Armagh, is an enclosure of uncertain age, possibly a fort field or enclosed ground. Its exact purpose and date remain unclear, but the name suggests a place set apart, perhaps for defence, ritual or boundary. The uncertainty itself gives the field a strange life, as if it withheld its own history rather than losing it.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as ENCLOSURE?: FORT FIELD. Recorded period: UNCERTAIN. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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