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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Greenhall Lower

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Greenhall Lower is a worn earth and stone oval on a pasture ridge, now partly swallowed by a field boundary. It may have been a human home, a boundary marker, or a child's climbing ring before becoming fairy land in local thought. The lost entrance and missing ditch leave the true purpose uncertain, but the shape still stands out on the ridge.
On a low but prominent NW-SE ridge in pasture. A raised oval area (35.9m NNW-SSE; 28.2m ENE-WSW) enclosed by a poorly preserved low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.2m; H 0.1-0.4m) that has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary from ENE-S-NNE. There is no trace of a fosse and the original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

What survives
No visible remains or recorded as destroyed

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