What is recorded here
No visible entrance; the southern bank simply thins into a low scarp where the ditch fades. That is the whole of it: a thirty-two metre circle of earth and stone in level pasture, unmarked and unbroken. The fairies never built doors because they do not leave the way people do. They go through the places people stop seeing. The fort has no gate because it has no inside. It is a hole in the world shaped like a room, waiting for someone stupid enough to walk through.
In level pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 32m) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.4-5.7m; H 0.8-1.45m) except at SSE where it is defined by a low scarp (H 0.5m). A wide, shallow fosse (Wth 4.8-5.6m; D 0.2-0.6m) survives from S–SSW and from N–NE–E. A report in 1976 (SMR file) suggested that a wide break in the bank at S may mark the original entrance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 28 November 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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