Discover Alone ← Back to nearby map

← Back to the nearby map

Embanked enclosure — Stonepark South

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
View what I want to do
Embanked enclosure — Stonepark South
Photo: Credit not shown in the picture search · Open the original picture · Rights wording not checked; contact us if this picture should be removed · Report the wrong picture · If this is your picture and you want it taken down, email me.
Know this place?

Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.

Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.

Add your photo and local directionsShare what you found

What is recorded here

On a gentle S-facing slope towards the E edge of a plateau. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 38.5m WNW-ESE; 37.4m NNE-SSW) defined by a rounded earthen bank (Wth 4.6m at S to 8.5m at E; int. H 0.6 at W to 1.6m at N; ext. H 1.6-2m) separated by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 7-10.2m; Wth of base 2.6-3.5m; D 0.4m at N to 1.8m at S) from an outer bank (Wth 6.4-9.2m; ext. H 0.8-1.1m) which survives only NNE-E-SW. An outer fosse and third bank are visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP: BDK 84-6) from the 1970s NW-E, being incorporated into a field bank SW-NW, but this feature does not survive. The entrance through the inner bank (Wth 3m) and a causeway (Wth 3.4m) are at E, but the gap in the middle bank is altered. The grass-covered foundations (Wth 1.5m; H 0.5m) of a rectangular house (RO032-023003-) (int. dims 4m x 3m) abut the inside of the inner bank at NE, and the interior is overlain by the remnants of a field system. There was a rectangular enclosure or annexe (RO032-023002-) (dims c. 30m N-S; c. 30m E-W) S of the middle bank defined at the E, S and W sides by an earthen bank and outer fosse (CUCAP: BDK 84-6), but this has been removed. See the attached aerial images from S (001) and E (002). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.