What is recorded here
Mungan holds a ringfort where earth still presses against time. People may have lived there before records began, building walls that resisted rain and forgetting. The fairies keep the fort because humans stopped seeing it. What is missing is not data, but witness.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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