What is recorded here
On break of S-facing slope of hill in cut meadow. Enclosure (TS075-013----) located c. 50m to the SE. Roughly circular area (diam. 29.7m NE-SW) enclosed by an earthen bank reduced to scarp (H 0.78-1m) Ringfort very heavily overgrown with nettles and scrub around edge. Bank planted with young conifers. Monument fenced off with electric fencing. Electricity pole erected in 1927 on bank in E quadrant. External face of bank has been truncated, cattle denudation and/or machine 'cleaning' of edge of ringfort. Lot of dead wood dumped on top of scarp in N quadrant. Dip in ground level at base of bank indicting former fosse (Wth 3-6m), though not as apparent on N side.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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