What is recorded here

A 34-metre earthen ring in Riddlestown pasture still stands on the southeast slope. People may have lived inside it before fields and walls took over the bank. The gaps at west and south-east suggest doors rather than decay. The land remembers the shape even when the story has faded.

In pasture, on SE-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 34m) enclosed by earthen bank, with external fosse (D 0.65m; Wth 2m) SE->N. Bank (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.9m), best preserved along S arc, is incorporated into field boundary N->SE with low stone wall running along top. Bank is completely masked by vegetation overgrowth WNW->NE. Gaps in bank at W (Wth 2m) and SSE (Wth 1.8m). Bank is abutted by field boundaries at N and SE; latter meets another field boundary which clips outer edge of fosse SE->SW. Counterscarp earth-and-stone bank (ext. H 0.35m) at NW. Interior, covered with briars and bushes, slopes down gently to S. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

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