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Situated on a slight SSW facing slope in gently undulating grassland with excellent views from E-S-SW. Large ringfort (WM010-006---), possible mound barrow (WM010-003----) and Emper Fair Green 456 and 330m to WSW respectively. Depicted as a raised circular-shaped platform defined by a bank with fosse and external bank…

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Situated on a slight SSW facing slope in gently undulating grassland with excellent views from E-S-SW. Large ringfort (WM010-006---), possible mound barrow (WM010-003----) and Emper Fair Green 456 and 330m to WSW respectively. Depicted as a raised circular-shaped platform defined by a bank with fosse and external bank on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. On the revised 192 ed. OS 25-inch map only the outer enclosing element of the monument is depicted, with no depiction of the raised central platform. Described in 1976 as a large circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 55m NE-SW) enclosed by an earthen bank with wide shallow external fosse. From SW-W-N-NE the perimeter of the site is formed by a field fence as depicted on the 1912 ed. OS 6-inch. Today the enclosing element of the monument from NE-E-S-SW has been levelled and is now visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph a crop mark. Its depiction on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map suggests that this was originally a bivallate ringfort, with a raised circular-shaped platform (approx. diam. 25m NW-SE). See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM010-007

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
  • Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Jamesco101, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Richard Webb, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • SE Keenan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Charles T. G. Clarke, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • 瑞丽江的河水, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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