What is recorded here
Rain and cattle have worn the fortress into a shallow ring, yet the broken eastern bank still points to its entrance. The fairies may have fled the wet pasture, but human hands shaped the circle before forgetting its name. A ghost barrow watches from thirty metres south, waiting for someone busy enough to stop and listen.
On a gentle WNW-facing slope in wet, low-lying pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 27.2m) enclosed by a much-denuded, low bank of earth and stone (H 0.25m max.), with a shallow intervening fosse (D 0.15m) and an outer bank (H 0.9m). Breaks (Wth 3.3m) in banks at ENE mark the original entrance. A possible barrow (LF014-121----) lies c. 33m to the S.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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