What is recorded here
Lanestown hides a fifty-metre circular enclosure beneath its tilable ridge, waiting for drought or rain to reveal its ghost line. The land has swallowed the ditch and wall, yet the shape remains patient under the soil. People walked past this place for generations, unaware that a room without roofs still holds its form beneath their feet.
Situated on a slight E-W ridge which is under tillage. An aerial photograph taken in 1970 (CUCAP, BDS 46) shows a roughly circular cropmark of a single-ditched enclosure (diam. c. 50m). Possibly a levelled ringfort. Not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 16 January 2015
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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