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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Dunbell Big

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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Heavily overgrown with trees and scrub. There is a deep large quarry c. 20m to the E. Indicated on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map and on the 1899-1902 revision as a multivallate enclosure (int. diam. c. 40m; overall diam. c. 75m) defined by two concentric banks. Another enclosure identified by Prim (1872-3, 225) is located c. 30m to the W and another bivallate enclosure (KK024-018----) is located c. 140m to the S. See attached: KK024-016----_01 aerial photograph (CUCAP ASW037, 17 July 1967) KK024-016----_02 GB89.Q.30, 13 July 1989 KK024-016----_03 Prim’s map of 1872-3, 225 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 10 November 2021

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