What is recorded here
You need a modern satellite survey to see the shallow ditch because soil and grass erased the earthly owner long ago. The local name admits the limitation: human memory failed, so invention completed the shape. The fort is no longer a record of the people who built it. It is a trap for imagination, waiting for someone to project their own lost world into its circle.
Situated on a rise in a low-lying landscape in the valley of the River Nanny, with the stream c. 200m to the NW at the closest point. It is on land that was once part of the demesne of Corballis House. The cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (dims c. 37m E-W; c. 27m N-S) defined by a single narrow fosse NNE-S-W is visible only on Apple Maps which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. The fosse is most massive (Wth c. 2m) around the entrance (Wth c. 3m) at ESE. It was first reported by Anthony Murphy.
See the attached enhanced view from Apple Maps
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 7 February 2020
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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