Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Highpark

Fairy forts are not fairy creations. They are human ringforts, often old, where ordinary life happened before records began. The fairy name comes later. It appears when the true use is forgotten, when the shape still stands but the people are gone. In that gap, the imaginations of later times move in. They fill the empty meaning with sparks, creatures and warning. That is why these places sound like magic. They are memory having lost its facts.