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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cooltomin

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Cooltomin holds a thirty-two-metre earthen ring where limestone bones still push through the soil. Cattle once grazed its edges while people forgot the middle, but the bank never broke. It bent the field boundary instead of disappearing, proving that memory can wear a pastoral shape. Shadows move across its trees at dusk, and no one has measured how deep the forgotten chamber reaches beneath the grass.
In pasture, on low-lying gently undulating terrain, in area of outcropping limestone. Circular area (32m N-S; 31.2m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.3m), incorporated into field boundary NE->SSW, with field wall (H 0.65m; Wth 0.8m) running along top NE->SE and SSE->SSW. Level interior, under rough pasture littered with loose stones, is covered by mature deciduous trees. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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