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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Camas

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Mature ash trees straddle the earthen bank of the Camas ringfort, hiding a circular enclosure where grass still covers the interior. The south-facing slope holds a dry pasture today, but the surviving north-western curve suggests people once shaped that land before ploughs and boundaries cut through it. The fairy fort name captures the local belief that the site belongs to something older and less reasonable than human history.
In dry pasture, on slight S-facing slope. Roughly circular area (38m N-S; 34m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.65m; ext. H c. 2.4m) with external fosse (Wth c. 5m; D c. 1m). Bank and fosse, best preserved NNW->SW, are almost fully levelled SW->NNW. A N-S running field boundary crosses interior on E side. Bank covered by mature ash trees. Level interior is under grass. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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