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Enclosure in Prusselstown

Enclosure

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Prusselstown holds a hidden circular enclosure forty metres across on a gentle pasture slope. The ditch is gone, but the earth still shadows beneath the grass, marking a lost rath beside fields that may have fed it. A rectangular shadow appears in the next field, suggesting a larger settlement existed before the land was smoothed. The place is not empty; it is waiting to be seen through what the soil remembers.
On a gentle SW-facing pasture slope. Visible on an aerial photograph (CUCAP ASU 74 (1967)) as the cropmark of a fosse enclosing a roughly circular area (est. diam. c. 40m) together with the cropmarks of a possible field system (KD035-017002-) adjacent to SE. Possibly a levelled rath and associated field system. No visible surface trace survives. The cropmark of a possible rectangular enclosure (KD035-017003-) in the next field to the SW, is also visible on this aerial photo. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 28 November 2013

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