What is recorded here

Deer park walls and forgotten ditches cut through a seventy-metre ring where water still fills the eastern ditch. The site holds two ancient enclosures, yet human hands keep rewriting its edges. What was built to exclude may have become a trap for memory itself, forcing us to ask which creature truly owns the boundary now.

In level pasture, with trees, bushes and briars growing around the perimeter and scrub in the interior. The N sector is transected by a deer park wall running ENE-WSW and the bank and fosse are not visible at ground level N of this wall. There is another enclosure (KK027-089----) c. 40m to the NW. A roughly circular enclosure (overall diam. c. 70m) defined by an earthen bank (int. H 0.15m; ext. H 2m; Wth 3m) and outer fosse (Wth 3m; D 1.5m), the latter being waterlogged in the E quadrant (OPW Correspondence files, May 1957). The bank is visible from SE-S-SW, from NE-E-SE it is reduced to scarp and in the W it has been replaced by a straight narrow field ditch (ibid.). The fosse continues from the deer park wall in the NE to the SW sector(ibid.). There is a gap (2.4m) in the bank in the SE (ibid.). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 3 April 2023

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