What is recorded here

Castle-Erkin South holds a forgotten oval, thirty metres long, where a shallow scarp and hidden fosse still trace the edge of human intention. Two barrows watch from twenty metres away while Castle-Erkin looms nearer to the northwest, suggesting the land was shaped for ceremony rather than ordinary farm work. The enclosure has faded until Google Earth shows nothing at all, but its dimensions remain precise enough to imagine people walking its boundary, marking season or loss in soil that grass has since swallowed.

Situated in NE corner of a field of undulating pasture, with good views to W and S, two barrows (LI014-125/126----) lie c. 20m to the SSE. Site of Castle-Erkin (LI014-088002-) 190m to NW. Site surveyed by the ASI in 2005 and described as consisting of an oval-shaped area (30m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (Wth. 3.8m; H 0.4m) from NNW to SSE and by a fosse (Wth. 3.5m) at NW and from NNW to SSE, with an external bank (int. H 0.4m; Wth. 1.3m; ext H 0.2m) visible from NNE to SSE. The faint outline of the monument is visible on the Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2005-2012. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 7 July 2020

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