What is recorded here

Magic is not required to explain the fort, though people preferred magic to admitting they had forgotten what the fort was for. It is a circle of earth thirty-two metres wide in Glenwilliam, with a shallow ditch outside and a grassy field inside where thorn and ash trees still grow. The ditch has been partly filled and the bank worn low, but the shape remains clear enough to walk around and imagine. A home, a meeting place, a boundary marked for neighbours, or a child's idea of a castle: the earth does not argue, it only waits to be seen.

In level reclaimed pasture. Circular area (diam. 32m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5m) with an external fosse (D 0.2m; Wth 1.2m). Fosse infilled WNW->NW by recent dumping. Parts of bank much eroded. Mounds in NW quadrant of interior are due to recent dumping of earth here. Otherwise interior level and under rough pasture covered by mature thorn and ash trees. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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