What is recorded here
Mortars and chips scatter the ground beside the ruined wall, proof that human hands shaped the stones before fairy tales claimed them. The fort stands in open farmland, its broken ring exposing the life of the people who built and abandoned it.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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