What is recorded here
No visible gap, no central hall, no obvious human plan. The land itself drew a shallow circle and waited. What is missing is the point. The fort refused to explain itself, so it stopped being a fort and became a measure of whether you can sit with unknown things.
On a gentle S-facing slope on rough ground within a plantation of coniferous trees. A buffer zone of between 10m and 15m has been left unplanted around the monument. A report in 1977 (SMR file) indicates that this raised oval area (c. 28m E–W; c. 22m N–S) was enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone. It is defined by a scarp (H 0.4m) and a wide shallow fosse (Wth 5m; D 0.2m). The original entrance is not recognisable. Within the interior at SSE is an irregularly shaped depression (max. dim. 8m; D 0.3m) of unknown significance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 29 November 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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