What is recorded here

Fosterstown South holds a hidden ringfort beneath ordinary farmland, its ditches and pits confirmed only after modern development forced a digging. The field system still shapes the land, preserving a circular enclosure that resisted easy sighting for centuries. What was lost is not gone, but waiting beneath the soil for someone patient enough to ask it to reappear.

A field system that appears to be associated with a circular enclosure (DU011-116----) visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph. A further enclosure is located to the south (DU011-118----) (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). This site was subject to geophysical survey (08R117) and test excavation (09E0466) as part of the proposed Metro North development. The presence of ditches and pits associated a possible ringfort was confirmed (Hession 2009). Compiled by: David O’Connor Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 4 November 2013

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