What is recorded here

Fairy forts hide in plain sight, wearing the clothes of ordinary farmland. In Drombanny, a forty-metre ring was drawn across a south-facing slope, large enough for hearth-smoke and children’s feet. Ploughs and quarrying have bitten through it, yet a scarped edge still marks the boundary where human life turned the earth into a room. The fairies never left; they simply stopped being visible to the people busy enough to forget them.

On a S-facing slope in rolling pasture, immediately NW of a farm track. The monument, depicted on the OS 1840 map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m), has been levelled but is still evident as a sub-oval area (c. 19.8m WNW-ESE) defined by a scarped edge (Wth 2.2m; H 0.2m) in the W, S and SE. An earthen bank (Wth 1.75m; H 0.1 -0.2m) runs NE-SW c. 4.5m W of the site; this may be the remains of an old field boundary. There is a steeper natural break in slope c. 5m E of the site. There is an area of quarrying c. 5m to the N, and c. 20m to the N is an area where topsoil and builders rubble have recently been dumped. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 31 May 2013

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