What is recorded here

Ardlaman is a fairy fort, a circular ring of earth and memory. The form is gone, but the name and shape remain. The land still records the boundary. What was built is no longer visible, yet the place is not empty. It is a fort in the sense that it shaped life, marked ownership and resisted forgetting. The earth forgot the stones. People did not forget the name. That is the difference between death and transformation.

In pasture, on SE-facing slope. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. According to local information monument levelled in 1982 and was enclosed by an earthen bank and with a deep external fosse and causeway entrance at N. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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