What is recorded here

Mature trees still crown the scarped edge of the Riddlestown ringfort, guarding a circular pasture that field boundaries later cut into an oval. The earthwork stands barely seven tenths of a metre high, yet it holds its shape against modern farms and sheds. People may have lived inside that shallow bowl before boundaries redrawn it, but the trees suggest the place still resists forgetting.

In pasture, on gentle W-facing slope. Originally circular area (diam. 37.4m E-W) has been truncated SE->SW by E-W field boundary (now 32.5m N-S). This area defined SW->SE by scarped edge (H 0.7m; Wth 3.15m), but no trace of scarp on S side of field boundary. Mature trees grow along top edge of scarp. Dip in scarp (Wth c. 4.5m) at NNE. Recently deposited band of earth and stone runs along base of scarped edge. Level interior under pasture. Recently built farm shed and concrete yard lie 40m to WSW. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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