What is recorded here
Molosky is a clay ringfort where the boundary between human law and fairy mischief still blunts. People may have built it to keep out invaders, but the circle has no gate and resists every human claim. It is not a ruin, it is a trap for certainty.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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