What is recorded here

Half a million years of rain and ploughing have sanded the edges of a fort that still stands on a low rise in Longford pasture. The mound is barely visible above its own scarp, split by a modern field boundary, yet the drystone facing and vanished entrance prove people shaped this place before memory. What was lost is not nothing; it is the shape of life that no longer speaks its own name.

On a low rise in undulating pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Low, almost circular, dome-shaped mound of earth and stone (c. 28m E-W; c. 27m N-S) defined by a steep scarp (H 1-1.5m). The mound rises 0.3-0.4m above the scarp. It is divided into unequal portions by an E-W field boundary. The scarp has been faced with drystone-walling in relatively modern times. A report in 1986 (SMR file) recorded a fosse; it is no longer identifiable. At S the ground level falls away steeply from the base of the scarp. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 17 November 2011

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