What is recorded here

Garrynderk North holds a forgotten water castle beside the railway, its oval earthworks still marking a lost boundary in reclaimed pasture. The site faces a older ringfort, suggesting layered occupation rather than a single abandoned experiment. Maps from the nineteenth century captured the curve before modern fields softened it, preserving a shape that human memory has largely released.

In reclaimed pasture 75m W of railway track. Bivallate Ringfort (LI047-063----) lies 90m to SW. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped enclosure. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval-shaped area (dims. c. 16m NE-SW; 22m NW-SE) enclosed by a bank with wide berm and external bank from SE-W-NE reduced to a scarp elsewhere, forms field boundary wall from NE-S. Barry (1981, 84) listed the monument as a possible moated site no. 31. Outline of shrub-covered monument is visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 13 August 2021

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