What is recorded here
Situated the base of the N facing slope of steep hill in grassland. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular-shaped enclosure and annotated as a ‘fort’. Ringfort possible (WM012-018---) 90m to N. This site has been levelled, visible at the time of the ASI site visit in 1972 as a recently spread area of earth and stone. Visible as a faint crop mark on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 15 November 2017
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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