What is recorded here
Fairy forts are not fairy forts at all. They are ordinary ringforts, built by people, forgotten by history, and renamed by wonder. The field is not claiming mystery. It is admitting that memory has failed. What is missing is not magic. It is witness.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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