Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Glascarn

Situated on a gentle E-facing slope, in undulating pasture, with fairly good views in all directions. Ringfort (WM018-124----) lies c. 90m to SE. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork abutting the public road to ESE. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork truncated by a field boundary to NNE and the public road to ESE. Monument described in 1980 as an oval-shaped enclosure (dims. 34m N-S; 29.5m E-W) defined by a bank and external fosse with no entrance gap visible. The low bank of earth and stone is visible from E-S-W-WNW and there is internal stone facing from S-SSE. The bank has been reduced to a low scarp from WNW-N-E. A wide, deep fosse survives from S-W-NW and is shallow from NW-N where it is partially infilled. The fosse is absent from E-S where it is truncated by the public road which runs NE-SW just E of the site. The interior has a gentle E-facing slope. A modern field fence runs roughly NW-SE across the monument just N of centre. Monument visible today as a roughly oval-shaped tree-planted earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 08 February 2019