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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cragmore

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Half a metre of earth and stone still stands in Cragmore pasture, marking a fifteen-metre circle that people shaped before written memory. The outer bank leans into a hidden ditch, while nettles gather in the dipped centre like a quiet claim on forgotten ownership. Local men took road material from it in the 1950s, believing they understood what they removed. They did not.
In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 15m) enclosed by two concentric earth-and-stone banks, 3m apart. Inner bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.2m) best preserved at S; outer bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.2m) has a greater internal height, suggesting it falls into an infilled fosse. Field boundary skirts around outer bank NNW->NE before clipping it at NE->SE. Interior, under pasture, dips towards centre where there is a cluster of nettles. According to landowner, banks partially levelled during 1950s when quarried for road material. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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