What is recorded here

Fairy forts like Bracklon are earthen ringforts: circular ditches and banks made by people, later called fairy homes because their purpose was forgotten. In Bracklon the round shadow is still visible through pasture, though farm boundaries have cut across it and the entrance has disappeared. The name suggests a place so old and ordinary that imagination moved in to fill the gap.

On a gentle SE-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 33.2m) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone with a wide, deep, external fosse. The bank and fosse have been substantially modified and incorporated into a field boundary from SE-S-NW. Elsewhere they have been levelled but their outlines (Wth c. 4.8m and c. 4m respectively) are still identifiable. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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