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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Iffernock

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Forty metres of hidden ring rise above Iffernock soil, waiting for rain to reveal its twin borders. People called it a fairy fort because the land itself seemed to refuse ordinary explanation. Perhaps humans lived there before memory faded, building walls that time erased but never forgot. The fairies may have simply inherited what humanity abandoned.
Situated on a slight rise in a gently undulating landscape. Aerial photograph (GB90.CA.02) shows the cropmark of an enclosure (int. diam. c. 40m) defined by two broadly concentric curving fosse features SSE-W-NE. It is also visible on aerial images from 1995 (OSAP). A NNE-SSW field drain, now removed, truncates the enclosure at E. It was first recorded as a positive cropmark in July 1990. Date of upload: 31 August 2017

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