What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Shanid Lower is a broken earthen ring, not a palace or a god-place. The measure is a shallow circular bank beside a hill slope, with a gap at one side and marsh grass inside. People may have lived there, marked territory, kept animals, or abandoned it when the land changed. The fairies enter later as a story about the hidden shape, not as a claim that the ring is finished or complete.

In low-lying marshy pasture, near base of NNE-facing hill slope. Sub-circular area (23.2m N-S; 21.8m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank E->W and defined by scarped edge W->E. Bank (int. H 0.95m; ext. H 1.45m), heavily masked by vegetation overgrowth, lowers at SE (ext. H 0.75m). Scarp (H 1.25m; Wth 4m), best preserved NNW->E, becomes very low W->NNW (H 0.2m; Wth 2m). Break in bank (Wth 1.85m) at SE. Interior, covered with flag irises, slopes down gently to E. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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