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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Graigues (connello Lower By.)

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Dense scrub now strangles the thirty-metre stone ring in Graigues, hiding most of the bank from human eyes. Cattle still break through the north-west gap, wearing the ancient wall lower while the sheer outer face remains stubbornly visible along the trackway. The fort has retreated into green shadow, keeping its interior sealed from curious legs but open to hooves and memory.
In area covered by dense scrub. Site depicted as roughly circular hachured area (diam. c. 30m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, is now masked by dense vegetation overgrowth, with only a short stretch of enclosing stone bank visible where it borders trackway NNW->NE. Bank (int. H 1.15m; ext. H 1.35m), worn down by cattle accessing interior at NNW, has sheer external face along trackway. Interior inaccessible due to dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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