What is recorded here

Fairy forts are often ringforts misnamed because people stopped understanding them. Sooreeny may hold one of these quiet misreadings, a human fort forgotten until folklore filled the gap. The true story may be simpler: people lived there, left, and the hole became a vessel for wonder.

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