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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Belville

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

No visible gate. The east bank has collapsed into the ground, exposing the dark soil within. The west ditch still holds water after rain, mapping the circle's edge. A twenty-five metre chamber sits in open bog, large enough for a dozen people to stand inside. The missing wall suggests entry from that direction, though no doorway remains to prove it.
On a flat, low-lying boggy valley bottom with fairly good views across the valley floor. A roughly circular area (diam. c. 25m) enclosed by low, wide earthen bank (Wth c. 2.5m; int. H 1m; ext. H 2.3m), a wide, shallow external fosse (Wth 4m; D 1.8m) and slight traces of an outer bank (Wth 1.5m; H 0.5-0.75m) at the S which may be a field bank. The inner bank is badly denuded in the E quadrant and the fosse is visible in the western half, from S-N. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 7 February 2018

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