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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Drewscourt West

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort in Drewscourt West: a broken ring in pasture, thirty metres wide on the old map, reduced to a shallow scar and faint ditch. It is not gone completely. The grass still marks the circle, and the land remembers the shape even when people stopped seeing it.
In gently undulating pasture. Monument, depicted as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled and surrounding field boundaries removed. However, its outline is still evident as circular area (22m N-S; 23m E-W), slightly truncated at S end by former E-W field boundary, defined by scarped edge (H c. 0.35m; Wth c. 4m) with external fosse (D c. 0.2m; Wth c. 2m). Entire site is under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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