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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Balsitric

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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Visible as a circular feature on the aerial images of OSI (1995, 2000, 2005), Google Earth (2010) and Bing (2013). It is situated on top of a drumlin in a gently undulating landscape. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. of top 34m N-S; 33m E-W; diam. of base 46.5m N-S; 45.2m E-W) that remains untilled in a field of cereals. It is defined by scarps (H 0.8m at W to 1.4-1.6m generally), but there is no evidence of a fosse. The interior is level but slopes down to the E and S (H c. 1.8m) and a slight dip (L c. 3m) in the perimeter at SE suggests that there may have been an entrance here, although as the lowest point of the platform it may have been created by vehicles. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 25 May, 2016

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