What is recorded here
Ring-ditch in Headfort Demesne is a faint twenty-metre cropmark on a south-facing slope, hidden beneath land once called Boxhill Wood. Mary Tunney first pointed it out, and Michael Moore later shared the image. The ditch may have marked a small dwelling, a boundary or a forgotten ritual place. Under the soil of Headfort Demesne, that little circle still waits to be understood.
Situated on a slight S-facing slope on land that was once within Boxhill Wood on the demesne of Headfort House. The cropmark of a small enclosure (diam. c. 20m) defined by a single fosse is faintly visible on Google Earth (07/05/2017). It was first reported by Mary Tunney.
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (07/05/2017)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 26 July 2022
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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