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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Callow

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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That is the name of the fairy fort in Callow: a stone ringfort where human life may have turned before the fairies took the story back. The circular bank still stands about thirty metres across on a gentle slope, with an inner wall dividing the overgrown middle like a forgotten room. People may have lived there, feared there, or simply passed by and never asked the stones what they wanted.
In pasture, on gentle ESE-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 30m) defined by stone bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 0.75m). Bank best preserved SSW->N, lowers E->SSW becoming scarp-like in places. Interior, sloping down gently to E, is divided by dry-stone wall (H 0.9m; Wth 0.35m) on rough E-W axis c. 8m to N of S arc. Interior densely overgrown. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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