What is recorded here
Half-buried in Cragmore pasture, the fort keeps its shape: a twenty-five-metre ring of earth and stone, slightly higher outside than inside, with a three-metre gap at the south-east that may have been a gate or may have been where the land took it back. The shallow interior slopes downward like a room emptied of furniture. People lived there, loved there, argued there, and forgot the names. The bank still marks the edge of their certainty.
In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Sub-circular area (25.7m N-S; 25m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.75m), best preserved NE->W. Dip in bank (Wth 3m) at SSE. Bank abutted by low earth-and-stone bank (H 0.4m) at NNW which extends to W for c. 8m. Interior, under pasture, slopes down to S.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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