What is recorded here

Beech and pine now choke the oval fort in Lissard, hiding the shallow scarp that once marked a human boundary. The earth still rises two metres at the east edge before merging into natural ground, preserving the shape drawn on maps decades before the trees arrived. Whatever life happened inside has vanished beneath roots and soil, leaving only a buried bowl for imagination to occupy.

In a forestry plantation on a low natural elevation. Marked as a roughly circular enclosure, planted with trees, with the designation ‘Fort’ on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This possible rath has been partly levelled. It is visible as a roughly oval raised area (c. 20-25m N–S; c. 17-20m E–W) defined by a low broadly sloping scarp (H c. 1.2m) that is easiest to trace from E–SE–S where it merges with a natural fall of ground, giving an overall drop in height at E of c. 2m. From SW–W–NW it (H c. 0.5m) is lower and less well defined. At N it is difficult to determine the exact limits of the monument as it and its immediate surroundings are planted with beech and Scots pine, representing an older phase of planting, and these trees are surrounded by a more recent, densely planted coniferous plantation with birch trees on the margins. There is no clearly defined break of slope between the flat interior and the scarp. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 January 2013

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