Enclosure in Bengeery — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Half a metre of earth and twenty-four metres of grass: a shallow circle in Bengeery pasture, its edge blurred by time and perhaps by ploughs. Rushes fill a hollow on the west, and longer grass still marks the ancient line. The quarry breathes dust nearby while the enclosure keeps its quiet shape, waiting for someone to notice what the field has almost forgotten.

In pasture, located in lowlying ground surrounded by gently undulating terrain and low drumlin hills. Ground rises gently immediately to S, and there is a small drumlin c. 60m to NE. The S and W sides of the field are bordered by farm roads, and there is an active gravel quarry on an adjacent property to SW. Slightly raised circular area or platform (24m E−W; 25.5m N−S) defined by a slight scarp (H 0.5m; Wth slope 4-5m). The platform is very low profile. The top/interior is flat, grassy and featureless. The enclosing scarp appears to have been partly levelled in the past and is poorly defined, with a broadly slumped slope that grades almost seamlessly in the surrounding field surface. The top of the scarp is distinguished by a slightly longer growth of grass. On the W arc the scarp slopes down into a roughly circular rush-grown hollow (diam. 10-11m; D 0.5m) which seems to be a natural feature –a number of similar hollows occur elsewhere in the field. The impression of a slight depression outside the scarp on the N and S arcs may indicate an enclosing fosse. Notified to NMS by Jean-Charles Caillère Attached images: MA038-217----_01.JPG Viewed from N Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 July 2021

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