What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human ringforts misnamed, often cut back by drainage or quarrying, as in Greenmount. The field drain has sliced through the eastern and western banks, and the southern interior may have lost soil to stone-taking. What remains is a shallow oval on an open ridge, with a small mound inside and enough of the outer bank left to show the shape. The fairies never lived there; people did, and the land kept what it could.

Situated on a ridge in gently rolling pasture. Good views in all directions. Sub-oval area (38m N-S; 30m E-W), defined by a bank, fosse and in places an external bank. The internal bank (int. H 0.3m; Wth. 3.45m; ext. H 0.3m) is fairly uniform, apart from in the E and W where it has been truncated by a field drain. The fosse (Wth. 0.6m) is evident from SE to NE, and has been truncated by the field drain to W. The external bank (int. H 0.3m; Wth. 4.7m; ext. H 0.2m) is visible only from the SE to the SW. The interior is uneven, with quarrying probably having taken place in the S and SE of the interior. There is a small circular mound in the interior (diam. 9m NE-SW; H 0.1m).

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