What is recorded here
Morgans South holds a broken ringfort where field boundaries cut through ancient earth. The remaining arc stretches thirty metres across rocky pasture, marking a D-shaped enclosure now softened by bushes and scattered stone. Local people still call it a fort, preserving the shape of human occupation even as erosion feeds the land more stone each year.
In rocky pasture, on gentle N-facing slope. In SW corner of field arc of earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.35m; Wth 4m) N->SE appears to be remains of circular enclosure truncated on W and S sides by field boundaries; area enclosed by bank and field boundaries (31.6m N-S; 7.2m E-W) roughly D-shaped. Site partially overgrown with bushes and there is much stone strewn about derived from eroding bank. Known locally as "a fort".
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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