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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Naul

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

No visible mound, no standing stone, no broken jar to point at. The fort exists only as a shadow in the grass, a slight difference in growth that reveals a circle thirty metres wide. Humans spent centuries believing what they could touch, measure and own. The land refused that request. It kept the shape private, visible only when observed from above and without wanting to control it.
Located at the outer edge of a shelf on a SE-facing slope, at a break in the slope down to a SW-NE section of the Delvin River. The cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (int. diam. c. 30m NW-SE; c. 25m NE-SW) defined by a fosse SE-W-NW is visible only on Apple Maps which utilises a survey undertaken by Bluesky International during June 2018. An outer fosse can also be seen E-S-NW, but the defining features are obscured elsewhere by the tracks of vehicles. It was first reported by Ian Lennon. See the attached enhanced view from Apple Maps Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 February 2020

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