What is recorded here

A public road has cut through the earthen ring in Glenwilliam, leaving two broken arcs that still curve around a level pasture basin. The remaining bank rises a metre above the grass, while a shallow ditch and a steep natural scarp complete the invisible circle. People may have lived inside this small oval before the road severed it, but the earth now holds more memory than history.

In pasture, atop low hillock on a generally N-facing slope. Roughly oval area (28m N-S; 22m E-W) enclosed NE->NW by earthen bank (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.3m), with external fosse (Wth 4m; D 1.2m) SSE->NW; bank becomes scarp-like NE-SE where there is a sharp fall in natural terrain away from interior (H 5m; Wth 24m). Enclosing element is truncated by public road NW->NE; road, set in a deep cut (D 3.5m; Wth of road 5m) into side of hillock, runs straight on E-W axis. Earthen bank on N side of road, which arcs to respect former line of enclosing element, continues NW->SE along foot of steep fall; this is probably part of surrounding field boundary system. Enclosing element obscured by stone dumps at SE. Interior is level and under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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