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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Churchtown

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Mortons and others still call it a fairy fort, but measure a human ringfort: twenty-four metres across, a scarped bank one metre high, a narrow causeway entrance at the north, and a shallow fosse four metres wide. Trees have grown along the outer edge until the whole circle looks like a green room set into pasture. Whatever lived inside has stopped leaving marks, yet the shape remains exact enough to suggest people once drew a line around their own world and told the rest of the field to keep out.
In level pasture. Circular area (24.2m N-S; 24.5m E-W) defined by a scarped edge (H 1.15m; Wth 1.7m) with an external fosse (D 0.4m; Wth 4.75m). Causeway entrance (Wth 1.7m) at N. Intermittent stone revetting at base of scarped on W side. A ring of mature deciduous trees grow along outer edge of fosse. Interior is level and covered by overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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