What is recorded here
Five shallow ditches circle each other in Beaconstown like forgotten coins, their edges visible only when dry grass grows uneven. They sit beside a larger ringfort, suggesting a small cluster of burial or boundary markers rather than one lonely feature. The land still holds the shape of hands that dug them, even though no name or date has survived to explain why they chose that exact spot.
Aerial photograph (CUCAP ASU 65), shows cropmarks of what are probably five small ring-barrows or ring-ditches (KD037-031001-/005-), in close proximity (est. max diam. c. 15m), defined by cropmarks of fosses. Cropmark of probable ringfort (KD037-019----) is adjacent.
Date of upload: 15 September 2016
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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