What is recorded here
Fairy forts are not fairy forts. They are human ringforts, misnamed because people stopped remembering the hands that dug them. In Laracor that forgotten hand leaves a circular shadow in the soil, waiting for rain or sunlight to draw its shape again. The fairies inherit only what humanity abandoned.
Situated on a slight rise in a fairly level landscape with the SW-NE Knightsbrook River c. 330m to the W and c. 170m to the N. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 50-55m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on Google Earth (29/06/2019; 14/07/2018). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere.
See the attached image from Google Earth 14/07/2018
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 5 June 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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