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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Monktown (skreen By.)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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Located on fairly level ground at the bottom of a SE-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular area (int. diam. c. 20m; ext. diam. c. 50m) defined by a negative cropmark on the site of an earthen bank (Wth c. 5-8m) and the positive cropmark of an external fosse (Wth c. 6m) is most clearly visible on Google Earth (21/04/2019). It has no visible entrance but the enclosure is also visible on Google Earth (14/05/2020; March 2022) and is faintly visible on Apple Maps. It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced views from Google Earth _1 (21/04/2019), _2 (21/07/2021) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 July 2022

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