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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Graig

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Half-buried under grass and shadow, the ringfort in Graig still holds its shape on a sun-warmed slope. Its earthen bank rises higher outside than inside, as if built to keep something out rather than show off. The ditch runs around it like a forgotten instruction, and the field corner presses against the edge as though the land learned the boundary long before people did.
In pasture, on S-facing hill slope. Sub-circular area (33.4m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank with external fosse (D 0.55m; Wth 3m). Field boundaries skirt along outer edge of fosse at NW and E, forming field corner immediately outside enclosure at NNE. Bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.75m), best preserved NE->SE, is heavily masked by overgrowth SW->NW. Fosse, best preserved N->ESE, has recently been infilled at ESE to allow access to interior. Interior, under pasture, slopes down gently to S. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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