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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Baunacloka

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Dense scrub now strangles the earthen ring at Baunacloka, hiding a scarped bank that once enclosed thirty metres of lived space. The fort sits on a gentle rise above undulating pasture, watching the land while forgetting the people who shaped it. Quarrying nearby stripped the earth in later years, but the oval shadow remains beneath the green noise.
Situated on a gentle rise overlooking undulating pasture to N and S. The monument is heavily masked by dense scrub vegetation. Indicated on the 1924 OS 6-inch map as an oval area (c. 35m E-W; c. 30m N-S) enclosed by a bank. Parts of a scarped edge is evident amidst the overgrowth (Wth. 1.8m; H 0.4m) in the N and W arcs of the enclosure. An area immediately W of the monument has been quarried in the past. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 28 February 2013

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