What is recorded here

Kilbreedy is a ringfort where a silage pit swallowed half the circle, leaving only a scarped ridge and shallow ditch to mark what the land once held. The missing half does not disappear; it reappeals in the shape of the wound, as if the fort moved inside the excavation rather than vanishing. What remains is enough to show that the place was made, shaped and remembered before it was cut open.

In pasture, on E-facing slope. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been damaged by construction of a silage pit. Enclosing element now survives NW->E and is defined by a scarped edge (H 1.5m; Wth 3.5m) with an external fosse (D 0.5m; Wth 2.1m) and counterscarp bank (H 0.7m). This encloses a roughly ovoid area (12m N-S; 30m E-W) defined at S end by silage pit. An irregular mound (H 0.7m), probably formed of dumped spoil from silage pit excavations, forms fosse terminal at E. At W end enclosing element truncated by N-S field boundary; this area is obscured by dense overgrowth. Counterscarp bank is clipped by E-W field boundary at N. Surviving section of interior covered by mature ash trees as is enclosing element. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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