What is recorded here
No amount of staring will find the gap in the wall. The fort is a closed circle of stone and earth, thirty-five metres across, sitting atop a small hill where the valley unfolds in every direction. It is not a fortress built to keep invaders out, nor a home shaped for living. It is a boundary drawn complete, perhaps marking the edge of a field, a ritual or a claim so old it stopped needing an entrance.
At top of a small hill on the valley floor with very good views in all directions. A circular raised area (diam. c. 35m) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (int. H c. 0.2m; ext. H c. 1.4m). A field boundary runs E-W along the N edge of the monument. There is no visible entrance.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 9 September 2015
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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