What is recorded here

That is the visible shape of a small hill farm, perhaps a family home or a seasonal camp, reduced to a shallow curve and a few scattered pits. The flat top still stands about forty-five metres across, large enough for a house, a byre and a garden, yet the earth has forgotten most of the walls. What remains is a thin arc of dug soil, a boulder-filled hole and handfuls of charcoal that mark repeated fires rather than a single dramatic event. The fort is not grand, but it is honest: a ordinary life lived on open ground, then buried under grass and time.

Situated on the flat top (diam. c. 45m) of a hill. Archaeological monitoring of topsoil stripping in connection with a gas pipe-line during 1991 identified a curving fosse (Wth 0.5-0.9m; D 0.2-0.9m) that was sampled (E000636) in three places but produced nothing apart from charcoal-flecked soil. A large pit (diam. 2.3m; D 0.9m) filled with boulders and charcoal-flecked soil produced some pig and sheep bones and a sherd of coarse pottery. A smaller pit (L 1. 7m; D 0.2m) produced three similar sherds, thought to be Man-made underground passage ware. A few other pits produced no artefacts apart from flecks of charcoal, but the features can be interpreted as the remains of a rath. (Walsh 1991, 1992) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 17 August, 2016

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