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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Bayswell

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Bayswell
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Half a kilometre of forgotten life still stands in Bayswell: a thirty-two-metre circle of earth, ditched and banked, perched on a ridge above the valley. Someone cut that ditch, carried that soil, and divided the middle into two chambers before the church appeared thirty metres south. The fairies may have taken the name, but human hands shaped the fort.
On top of a N-S ridge overlooking lower land to E and W, in rolling grassland. A medieval church (KK008-066001-) and graveyard (KK008-066002-) c. 30m to the S. A circular area (int. diam. c. 32m) enclosed by low, wide earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.4-0.5m; ext. H 1m), external fosse (Wth 4-5m; D 0.8m) and smaller outer bank (Wth 3m; ext. H 0.6m). There is a possible entrance at the SE. The interior is divided in two by a low bank which extends N-S, with two-thirds of the interior to the W and one-third to the E. The enclosing elements in the W quadrant of the monument has been disturbed by small-scale quarrying. A pair of banks extend southward from the outer bank to link with the church and graveyard to the S. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 January 2018

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Photo: A.-K. D. · CC BY-SA 4.0