What is recorded here
Carranstown’s hidden ringfort is a circular ditch and bank, nearly fifty metres across, with a wide eastern entrance and no wall to break the sky. It lies flat beside another enclosed place, waiting for people who know how to read soil and shadow. The fairies may have built it, but human hands more likely dug the ditch and carried the earth.
Located on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 45m; ext. diam. c. 52m) defined by a single fosse feature (Wth c. 3-4m) with a wide entrance gap (Wth c. 8m) at ESE is visible on aerial images (Digitalmap 2018). It is just SW of the embanked enclosure (ME027-078----) and was first noted by Tom Condit.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 7 January 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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