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Fairy fort or ringfort in Haresmead

Fairy fort / ringfort
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What is recorded here

Marked faintly as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) in the SW angle of Stonerath Cross Roads on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the S end of a broad N-S ridge. It is not visible at ground level in a private garden. Archaeological monitoring (15E0412) of a gas pipeline just to the N in Area 11 produced no related material (Sutton 2018; excavations.ie 2015:422).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX040-014

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Richard Webb, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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