What is recorded here
Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Arch Hall: a circular enclosure, inner diameter about 60 metres, marked by two ring-shaped ditches reaching about 80 metres across, with matching gaps at the east-southeast where entrances cut through both. It lay hidden under a level field that once belonged to the Arch Hall demesne, visible only when crops grew unevenly above the old trenches. A drone camera flown by Justin Kenny in August 2018 captured the shape, and a separate survey done by Bluesky International in June 2018 also showed it faintly. People may have lived there, tended animals there, or simply avoided it because it was marked different; the ditch work suggests it was made to be entered, not forgotten.
Located on a fairly level landscape that was once part of the demesne of Arch Hall. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 60m) defined by two fosse features (ext. diam. c. 80m) was recorded on a drone-mounted camera operated by Justin Kenny in August 2018. There are entrances through the inner (Wth c. 5m) and outer (Wth c. 5m) fosses at ESE. It is also faintly visible on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018.
See the attached enhanced view from Apple Maps
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 27 January 2020
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