What is recorded here

Enclosure in Outrath is a circular ditch about 60 metres across, broken by a field boundary and remembered through a gravel pit marked in 1839. It is not a grand castle or a busy town, but a small human shape preserved in soil and shadow. That much is known. The rest is imagination: who dug it, who walked past it, and whether it was a home, a shrine, a trap or a boundary between lands.

A circular enclosure (diam. c. 60m) identified as the cropmark of a fosse on an aerial photograph (CUCAP AJQ028, 9 July 1964). A field boundary runs NNW-SSE through the centre of the enclosure. The 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map indicates a small semi-circular gravel pit (dims. c. 30m NNW-SSE; c. 15m roughly E-W) extending E from the field boundary, which would be in the NE quadrant of the enclosure. Some linear ditches, possibly a related field system (KK023-015002-), were also identified as cropmarks on the aerial photograph. See attached: KK023-015001-_01 aerial photograph (CUCAP AJQ028, 9 July 1964) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 July 2021

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