What is recorded here
Situated on a slight natural rise surrounded by gently undulating grassland with good views to the S & W. Levelled ringfort (WM010-038----) 75m to W. A circular shaped area (approx. diam. 26m N-S) enclosed by two poorly preserved earthen banks and intervening wide flat-bottomed fosse. The inner bank is best preserved at N, and is levelled from SW-W. It has traces of dry stone walling on both its inner and outer faces. A sub-circular shaped hut site (WM010-039001-) is visible in the NE quadrant of the monument.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 9 June 2017
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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