What is recorded here
Clear water and living roots may have filled the chamber before stone and fire arrived. People walked past the fort because it contained life, not vacancy. The chamber is no longer visible, but the region still remembers the boundary between the seen world and the hidden one.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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