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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Clorhane

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Half-buried in Clorhane pasture, the fort keeps its circular shape under grass and thorns. Its earth-and-stone bank stands taller at the south and melts into a scarp toward the northwest, as if the hill itself exhaled it into the slope. A field boundary cuts across the middle, but the old ring still reads clearly beneath the pasture, waiting for someone to walk its hidden edge.
In pasture, on break in NW-facing slope. Circular area (30.6m N-S; 31.2m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.5m), which is best preserved N->S but lowers becoming scarp-like along NW and SW arcs. Interior, which slopes down to W, is under pasture. Enclosure is crossed by a field boundary, travelling E-W, just S-of-centre; it is covered in thorn bushes. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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