What is recorded here

Thirty-four metres of marshy hollow hold two concentric earth banks, a rare double-ringed fortress where most local forts show only one. The outer bank still stands one and a half metres high on its best side, but water has swallowed the space between them until only briars and damp grass remain. People may have fought, hidden or worshipped there before the land sank into pasture, yet the earth keeps its shape while memory disappears.

In low-lying marshy pasture, in natural hollow. Circular area (diam. 34m) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks set relatively far apart (distance from bank to bank: 17m). Inner bank (int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.3m), heavily masked by overgrowth, is best preserved SW->NNW. Outer bank (int. H 1.4m; ext. H 0.8m) best preserved SSW->NNE, but lowers NNW->NNE and is levelled ENE->ESE. Outer bank has flat top (Wth 1.3m) on which boulders have been dumped at W and N; gaps in bank at SSE (Wth 11.5m) and SSW (Wth 5.2m). Area between banks is flat and waterlogged though marginally drier along SW arc. Level interior is covered with briars except for small clearing near centre. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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