What is recorded here
Kilbreedy holds a true ringfort, not a fairy tale. Earth scarped twelve feet high, a narrow ditch outside, and a gap facing southeast where someone entered or left. Cattle graze beside it now, unaware they walk around a house built by human hands. The fence skirts the south edge like a border drawn twice, once by people and once by forgetting.
In pasture. Circular area (29.8m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 1.2m) with external fosse (D 0.6m). Gap across scarp to SSE. E-W field fence skirts S side of enclosure.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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