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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Deelish (shanid By.)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Deelish holds a thirty-metre earthen ring where human hands shaped the soil long before memory faded. People likely lived, loved and lost themselves inside that circle, leaving no bones behind for modern pride to display. The earth keeps what hearts forget, while briars and bracken preserve the shape of forgotten joy.
In low-lying pasture, on gentle W-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 30m) enclosed by earthen bank with external fosse (Wth 1.2m; D 0.8m); a dry-stone field wall (H 0.9m) runs along outer edge of fosse. Bank (int. H 1.3m; ext. H 1.9m), heavily masked by overgrowth, has been quarried out (Wth 6m) at NNE creating a rough causeway across fosse. Interior, covered with briars and bracken, slopes very gently down to W; two electricity poles stand near verge at SSW. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

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