What is recorded here
Courtwood holds two rectangular fields cut by broad fosses, attached to a ringfort now hidden beneath ploughed soil. The shape suggests people farmed beside a defended home, then left the land to forget them.
Aerial photograph (GB89.AI.32) shows cropmarks of a field system comprising two rectangular fields delineated by broad fosses attached to an enclosure (probably a plough-levelled ringfort (LA009-053) and forming part of a wider cropmark landscape comprising curvilinear and rectilinear components, one with a clear entrance, and a trackway.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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