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Enclosure in Milltown

Enclosure
Enclosure in Milltown
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Enclosure in Milltown, a vanished oval shadow thirty-four metres across, still haunts the gentle SW-facing slope where cattle now graze. It vanished before the 1840 map drew its ghost line, yet the megalithic structure five metres south and the lost standing stone fifteen metres southeast prove the ground remembered shape long after human hands stopped shaping it. The enclosure may have marked a boundary between the living and the dead, a threshold where breath crossed into stone and stone crossed back into breath.
On a generally level area of a gentle SW-facing slope, in improved pasture. Depicted as a large oval enclosure (c. 34m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW) on the 1840 OS 6-inch map and indicated on subsequent OS historic mapping. Not visible at ground level. The site of a megalithic structure (CL035-013002-) is located c. 5m to S and a standing stone (CL035-013003-) formerly stood c. 15m to SE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Alison McQueen Date of upload: 13 November 2017

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