What is recorded here

No fort exists, only a shallow circular scar where grass grows taller around a flat bedrock floor. That distinction matters because a fort implies defenders and a hut implies one occupied person, perhaps two, sitting with their back to the rock while facing the open slope. The mistake was made by a man reading a map at a distance, and the correction came from a woman and a man walking the field close enough to see what the grass was doing. Distance invents grandeur. Proximity returns the place to human size.

On a N-facing slope in semi-karst rough pastureland with slightly higher ground around on most sides, and within a large multiperiod field system (CL010-064001-). Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996), on the basis of a 1996 map annotation by Tom Coffey, marking a ‘fort’. On inspection in 1999 a subcircular hut site (int. dims. 6m N-S; 5.4m E-W) defined by a band (Wth 1-1.8m) of slightly taller grass was noted in the location. The interior was flat, with some exposed bedrock. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 23 May 2023

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