
What is recorded here
Situated on a knoll that is on a gentle S-facing slope. The cropmark of a subrectangular enclosure (dims c. 40m ENE-WSW; c. 35m NNW-SSE) defined by a slight fosse is visible only on Apple Maps (2018). It may have an internal enclosure (diam. c. 15m) and both enclosure are cut but a NW-SE field bank. It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére.
See the attached enhanced view from Apple Maps (2018)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 6 July 2021
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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