What is recorded here
Fairy forts are misnomers, human hands made them. This is one: a shallow circular ditch cut into the south-facing slope of a knoll at the southwest end of the Redmountain ridge, about twenty-seven metres across, with a gap wide enough for a person to walk through at the east-southeast. The soil has closed most of the ditch, which is why the circle disappears from ordinary view and reappears only when satellite imagery is stretched and contrasted. Someone stood inside that circle, looked out across the ridge, and left a mark the land has not finished forgetting.
Located towards the top of the S-facing slope of a knoll that is at the SW end of the NE-SW Redmountain ridge. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 27m N-S; c. 26m E-W) defined by a single narrow fosse (Wth c. 1-2m) with an entrance (Wth c. 3-4m) at ESE is only visible on Apple Maps (2018). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére.
See the attached enhanced aerial view from Apple Maps (2018)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 29 June 2021
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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