What is recorded here
Wet pasture and a modern field boundary have cut through the fort, yet the southern bank and eastern fosse still mark a place where people likely lived before the land was divided. The northern part has been levelled, removing the entrance and half the shape, but the remaining earth remembers the effort of building on a slope. What is left is not a complete room but a boundary that resisted forgetting.
On a N-facing slope in wet pasture. On a N-facing slope in wet pasture. A raised subcircular area (29m N–S; 27m E–W) enclosed at S by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth c. 5m; H 0.3-0.9m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 1.1m). A fosse (Wth 5.5-6.3m; D 0.15-1.15m) is evident from E–S–W. A modern E–W field boundary divides the rath into unequal portions. The smaller portion, to the N, has been partially levelled. The original entrance is not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 28 November 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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