What is recorded here
Mortons and others may have lived inside the circular earthworks while believing the fort belonged to unseen residents. That is a plausible explanation for the warning still attached to the place.
In improved, undulating pasture, on a gentle SE-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 18m) defined by scarped edge (Wth 1.45m; H 1.1m) at foot of which is earthen bank (Wth 6.2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.25-0.45m) SSE-WSW and faint trace of outer fosse (Wth 5.6m; D 0.18m) SSE-SSW. Interior and enclosing element covered by dense scrub overgrowth.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 5 December 2013
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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