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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Craggaun

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Half the ring is a rebuilt drystone wall and the other half a buried stone spread, yet the whole circle still stands at the top of the ridge. The missing entrance and the small central hollow leave the real use uncertain: a home, a pen, a boundary mark or a place for ceremony. That uncertainty is what makes Craggaun worth visiting.
At the highest point of an E-W ridge. Listed as enclosure in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 37m E-W; 34m N-S) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2.7-4m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.3-0.8m) SE-NW, which is rebuilt as a drystone wall (Wth 1m; int. H 0.8-1.5m; ext. H 1-1.5m) on the line of the original or inside it NW-SE. N-S and E-W drystone walls combine with the re-built perimeter to create a small corral on the site. The entrance cannot be identified, but there is hollow (diam. 2.8m; D 0.35m) at the centre. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 April 2020

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