What is recorded here
Knocksaggart holds a earthen ringfort where clay and stone still mark an old boundary. The fairies may have danced there, but people certainly lived, loved and lost themselves inside the ridge. That much is written in the shape of the land.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
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Hilltop enclosure in GortnamuckHilltop enclosure · 1.2 mi
Gull RockNamed rock · 1.9 mi
Tummera LittleIslet · 6.0 mi
Abbey WoodForest · 6.5 mi