What is recorded here
Two concentric clay banks circle a hidden chamber in Dunbell Big, waiting beneath scrub and forgotten quarries. The earth still holds the shape of hands that built it, though no human name remains attached to the work.
Heavily overgrown with trees and scrub. There is a deep large quarry c. 20m to the E. Indicated on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map and on the 1899-1902 revision as a multivallate enclosure (int. diam. c. 40m; overall diam. c. 75m) defined by two concentric banks. Another enclosure identified by Prim (1872-3, 225) is located c. 30m to the W and another bivallate enclosure (KK024-018----) is located c. 140m to the S.
See attached:
KK024-016----_01 aerial photograph (CUCAP ASW037, 17 July 1967)
KK024-016----_02 GB89.Q.30, 13 July 1989
KK024-016----_03 Prim’s map of 1872-3, 225
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 10 November 2021
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