What is recorded here
Cantogher holds a thirty-metre earthen ring where marsh water still ghosts the ditch. People called it a fairy fort because the field refused to explain itself, not because anyone saw a fairy. The bank rises two metres outside and collapses to forty centimetres inside, as if the place had been hollowed from within. Scrub chokes most of the circle now, but the ditch and outer lip remain sharp enough to mark where human hands last argued with the land.
In flat marshy pasture. Circular area (diam. 30m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.45m: ext. H 2.15m) with external fosse (D 1.6m; Wth 3m) SE->N, and with counterscarp earthen bank (ext. H 0.3m) SE->W and NW->NE. Enclosing element and parts of interior have been dug away N->SE. Most of enclosure is covered by scrub vegetation.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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