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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Caherline

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Half a metre of scarped earth and a shallow ditch mark a small ringfort in damp Caherline pasture, yet cattle have already worn away part of the boundary. The circle is narrow enough to walk across in a breath, but its inner edge and outer trace suggest people shaped the land before it became pasture. What is missing has not disappeared; it has been walked into the memory of the field.
In damp pasture. Circular area (16.5m NW-SE; 16m NE-SW) defined by scarped edge (Wth 2m; H 0.5m), with external fosse (Wth 6.05m; D 0.4m) W-SSW. Scarp and fosse poached by cattle SE-SSW. Faint trace of outer bank (Wth 4.25m; H 0.15m) SE-SSE. Interior has a gentle scarped edge (Wth 1.75m; H 0.2m) facing SW from SE to NW. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 15 November 2013

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