
What is recorded here
Situated on a slight rise, in gently undulating pasture and tillage with good views to SE, S, and SW. A modern house plot abuts to SE. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork (approx. dims 45m N-S; 40m E-W). Monument described in 1970 as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The bank is almost reduced to a scarp and has a slight gap at NNE. The intervening fosse is visible from SW-W-N-E and a modern bank crosses at SW. The outer bank is visible from SW-W-N-E and is best preserved from W-WNW and from NNW-N-E. It has been almost completely removed from WNW-NW-NNW and elsewhere it is reduced to a low scarp. It appears to have been modified in relatively recent times from SW-W and a modern bank runs NE-SW from it at SW. A gap (Wth at top 5.9m; basal Wth 4m) in the inner bank at SE presumably marks the entrance. The inner and outer bank have a modern gap at NNE. The interior has a gentle NW-facing slope and traces of cultivation ridges running NW-SE. A house site (WM020-129001-) is located within the NE quadrant. Monument is visible today as a tree-covered earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 09 July 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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