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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Knockdromin

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Knockdromin holds a thirty-metre earthen circle where cattle have worn the outer bank smooth, proving the fort still serves living bodies rather than dead history. The southern causeway cuts through the fosse like a tongue, inviting entry into a pasture that slopes downward beneath the scarp. Fairy forts demand belief in transformation, but this is a human ringfort shaped by hands, tools and time. The distinction matters because people built it, lived beside it and left it marked on the earth.
In pasture, on SE-facing slope, below brow of low hill. Circular area (diam. 30.5m) enclosed by earthen bank NW->NNE and defined by scarped edge NNE->NW, with outer fosse (D 0.3m; Wth 1.5m) SE->WSW. Bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.75m), best preserved at N, has a much worn down outer face due to cattle traffic. Scarp (H 1.4m), best preserved along SE arc, lowers at S to match narrow causeway (Wth 3m) across fosse. A wire fence runs across base of scarp and fosse S->WSW. Line of removed field boundary can be traced as shallow depression running as a chord across N edge of interior and crossing enclosing element NW-NE. Interior, under pasture, slopes down to S. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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