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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Callow

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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A 50-metre earthen ring on a limestone hillock in Callow, worn by cattle and scrub but still clear enough to show its shape. The bank stands 1.8m outside and dips to 0.45m inside, with a 6.3m gap at the southwest and a rising stone floor at the centre. It is the kind of place where people may have kept livestock, buried tools or simply marked ownership long before written records.
Atop low hillock, in area of outcropping limestone. Circular area (diam. c. 50m) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.8m). Bank, heavily eroded by cattle, has been worn to scarped edge NNE->E and S->SW. Break in bank (Wth 6.3m) at SW. Interior rises up towards centre with exposed limestone prominent; irregular depression on E side probably associated with quarrying. Bank abutted by field boundary at N. Enclosing element and interior partially obscured by scrub overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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