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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Burtown Big

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

No. Retire the claim and remember the refusal.
In tillage. Shown on the 1st ed. (1839) of the OS 6-inch map as an oval area (est. max. c. 40m NNW-SE; c. 30m ENE-WSW) enclosed by a bank. While no visible surface trace survives, the faint cropmark of a fosse defining a curvilinear enclosure is visible on a 1989 aerial photograph (GB89.AI.07). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 23 December 2013

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What survives
Recorded monument

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