What is recorded here
New monument uncovered during excavation by Eamonn Cotter under licence number 03E0461 in advance of the M7 Heath-Mayfield motorway scheme.
A second, smaller enclosure (diam. 8.5m) defined by a ditch (Wth 0.51m; D 0.12m) was located approx. 30m to the SW of the ditch-barrow (LA008-042). A large iron axehead was found near the centre of the enclosure (Bennett 2006, 293-4).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
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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