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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Mulderricksfield

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

What is recorded here

Mulderricksfield held a twenty-metre stone ring before ploughs and time erased most of it. A low western arc still lies beneath sod and overgrowth, marking the southern edge of the narrow field where the boundary cut through the enclosure. The fairies may have built it, or people may have forgotten it; either way the ground kept the shape long enough for a map to remember what the pasture stopped seeing.
In pasture, on N-facing slope. Monument, depicted as circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been partially levelled. Immediate area of site now covered by dense overgrowth but what survives appears to be arc W->E of collapsed dry-stone wall (H c. 0.3m; Wth c. 4m) covered by sod. This occupies S end of narrow field whose S field boundary appears to truncate enclosure E->W. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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