What is recorded here
No visible entrance, no straight edge, no human plan. The fort is a ring of pressure, not a wall. The field may have built it, or the memory of a field may have shaped the ring. Either way, the ring is still complete.
At the highest point of a low but prominent drumlin. A raised circular area (diam. c. 36.5m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.5m; H 0.3m) with a wide, shallow, external fosse (Wth 3.8m; D 0.25m). From NNE-E-SE the bank and fosse have been levelled and the defining element is an irregular scarp (H 0.9m). The original entrance is not recognisable. It is densely overgrown with scrub rendering detailed inspection impossible.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 3 December 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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