What is recorded here

No visible entrance remains on the fifty-metre circular earthwork, yet the buried gateway likely opened toward the steep eastern drop or the distant valley views. People may have lived inside this quiet ring before quarry holes scarred its northern and eastern floors. The fairies keep the hidden door closed, waiting for humans to stop digging and leave the place alone.

On a slight N-S ridge within the Goul river valley with good views across undulating grasslands of valley floor. The land drops quite steeply to a small stream to the E. Many of the adjacent fields reclaimed and some cultivated. Circular area (int. diam. 50m) enclosed by an earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1m; overall Wth 2.5m), an external fosse (Wth 2.5m; D c. 0.2m) and intermittent outer bank (overall Wth 2.5m; int. H c. 0.6m; ext. H c. 0.2m). Modern quarry holes in N and E sides of otherwise level interior. The E quarry has been largely infilled. No visible original entrance. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 27 January 2016

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