What is recorded here

Mortons and Denis Power documented the Ardaneer ringfort in 2011, preserving a circular earth-and-stone enclosure beside a shallow limestone quarry. Cattle have worn breaks through the northern bank, yet the interior remains level beneath tall grass. The fort still occupies low-lying pasture where ancient field banks angle away into the distance.

In low-lying pasture, with frequent outcrops of limestone. Circular area (25.2m N-S; 24.6m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.65m; ext. H 0.5m), with external bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.6m) NW->NE. No obvious entrance but cattle breaks at N and NE. Interior level and covered by tall grass. Enclosure abutted by earthen banks at NE (L-shaped: extends 15.8m to N and then returns W for 21m; Wth 0.95m; H 0.4m), at SW (L 0.45m; Wth 1.2m; H 0.6m) and at NW (L 15.3m; Wth 2.4m; H 0.45m). These are probably remnants of an ancient field system. Immediately NE of enclosure is area which has been surface quarried for limestone (22m N-S; 22m E-W; D c. 0.7m). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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