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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Mountpleasant

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Towards the bottom of a W-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 58.7m E-W; 58.2m N-S) defined by a fosse (Wth of top 5.4-6m; Wth of base 2.5-3.5m; int. D 0.4-0.6m; ext. D 0.3-0.8m) WNW-E-SW, with slight traces of an inner bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.6m) S-SW which is incorporated into a field bank SW-NW. There is no identifiable original entrance. It is truncated by a NNW-SSE field bank towards the perimeter at SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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