What is recorded here
Flean More holds a thirty-six-metre earthen ring where cattle still break through the western bank to graze the boggy interior. The northern causeway crosses a shallow fosse, but dense vegetation now strangles much of the ancient boundary. People may have lived inside this simple circle before forgetting its name, leaving only beasts to remember the shape.
In level pasture. Circular area (diam. c. 36m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.85m; ext. H 1.9m) with external fosse (D 0.4m; Wth 1.5m), and with counterscarp bank (H 0.25m) ESE->SSE. Enclosing element and parts of interior are covered by dense overgrowth. Entrance at N where break in bank (Wth 3.1m) corresponds with causeway over fosse; gap in bank at W (Wth 2m) caused by cattle accessing interior. Interior level and boggy especially SW quadrant which is heavily poached by cattle.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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