What is recorded here
Graig holds a twenty-six metre earthen ring on an east-facing slope, its bank standing eighty centimetres tall at the outer edge. The south section dips for eight metres, perhaps marking a gate where people entered or exited the small world inside. Cattle graze above the buried floor now, but the shape still excludes them from its centre. That much resistance suggests the circle was made to be seen, remembered and used.
In pasture, on E-facing slope immediately below brow of hill. Circular area (diam. 26m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.8m), best preserved W->N but slightly lowers at S for c. 8m. Interior, under pasture, slopes down to E.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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