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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Mounthoward Upper

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Located at the crest of a NE-facing slope. The cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (dims c. 50m E-W; c. 42m N-S) defined by a fosse feature SW-N-E is visible only on Google Earth (14/07/2018). The perimeter is truncated slightly by a NE-SW field boundary at SE and also be a NW-SE field bank at SW, but a section of the fosse (L c. 15m) can be seen at S between the two field banks. It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillère. See the attached view from Google Earth Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 September 2019

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