What is recorded here
No visible entrance exists at the Coolamber ringfort, only a hidden gap buried beneath grass and forgotten time. The earth and stone bank circles forty metres of level pasture, enclosing a space where human life may have breathed, loved, and vanished without leaving a door marked for later strangers. What is missing is the entrance itself, not the shape of the place. The fort still holds its circle, waiting for someone to stop asking where the gate is and notice that the whole boundary is the threshold.
In level pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 40m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth c. 5m; H 0.3-0.65m) at W and from NNW-N, and defined elsewhere by a scarp (H 0.75-1.5m) with a wide shallow intervening fosse (Wth 6-7m; D 0.6-1.05m) and from WSW-W-NNW an outer bank (Wth 4.5m; H 0.4-0.8m). The original entrance is not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 30 November 2011
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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