What is recorded here
Forty-two metres of packed earth still hold their shape beneath the grass, a shallow bowl cut into the north-facing slope where cattle now graze. The western edge rises a metre and a third, broad enough to walk along, while a narrow ditch and smaller bank mark the outside like a forgotten boundary line. Whatever hand built it shaped soil into a room without walls, then stepped back and let the centuries fill the corners with pasture.
In pasture, on N-facing slope. Roughly circular area (42m N-S; 40m SE-NW) defined W->SW by scarped edge (H 1.3m; Wth 7.1m) with external fosse (Wth 1.9m; D 0.3m) and counterscarp bank (H 0.3m). Scarp and fosse most pronounced on N side. Enclosing element has been levelled SW->W. Dry-stone field boundary overlies counterscarp bank SSE->SSW. Interior, under pasture, slopes down gently to S.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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