What is recorded here
No amount of rain or doubt will erase the fact that a ringfort stands at the crest of a south-facing slope in a karst landscape. Its grass-covered circle measures about thirty metres across, bounded by a wide stone spread whose inner and outer faces still emerge intermittently, especially toward the north-west and east. There is no visible entrance, which makes the place feel less like a ruined human home and more like a threshold where ordinary perception stops. The inner face has been rebuilt on the east side, yet the original stone work still asserts itself beneath grass, soil and memory.
At the crest of a S-facing slope in a karst landscape. A circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 32.2m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by a stone spread (Wth 4.7-7.7m; int. H 0.5m at S to 1.4-1.8m generally; ext. H 1.4-1.6m). Internal and external facing stones can be intermittently seen, especially externally NNW-E (original Wth 3.2m at N and E). There is no visible entrance and the inner face of the wall is re-built ENE-ESE (ext. diam. 36.6m N-S; 32.2m E-W).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 12 April 2017
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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