What is recorded here

Forthill holds an oval ringfort where field fences still cut across the grass like forgotten measurements. Its earthen bank is low on one side and taller on the other, shaping a small place that could have held a household, a herdsman, or a child learning the reach of the sky. The name fairy fort does not dismiss people; it admits the limit of human knowledge.

In pasture, located on the SE-facing slope of a rise, with extensive views NW–N, in an area of undulating grassland. Ground falls away gradually to N towards a natural depression of rush-grown ground, now cut by a drain. An oval area (c. 40m N-S; c. 35m E–W), which is not noticeably raised, but incorporates a natural rise at NW–N. It is enclosed at N–SE by an earthen bank (Wth 1.6m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.3m), which is built up at NE to compensate for a natural slope, but is low and degraded at E–SE. It is levelled at SSE–SW to a faint undulation. At SW–NNW the bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.35m) is modified to serve as a field fence. The interior slopes from W–NW down to E–S. A low area (Wth c. 2m) at ENE−E where the bank is reduced to a scarp may indicate the location of the original entrance. Two field fences, one on a NW–SE axis and the other on a NE–SW axis, cross the S half of the interior, intersecting in the centre of the interior. Remnants of another field fence (Wth 1.2m; H 0.35m) cross the W edge of the interior on a NNE–SSW axis. Interior grassy; overgrowth on bank/field fence at W. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 June 2022

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