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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Towards the top of the NE-facing slope a NE-SW drumlin ridge. Oval grass-covered area (dims 35.5m NE-SW; 29.3m NW-SE) defined by a short stretch of earthen bank (Wth 4.25m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.95m) with an outer fosse (Wth of base 2m; D 0.1-0.2m) at W and a scarp (H 0.55m at SW to 1.4m at SE) elsewhere. There is no visible entrance, but the fosse is represented by a band of wet ground (Wth 2-2.5m) NW-ENE and SE-S. Rath (RO011-103----) is c. 90m to the NNE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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