What is recorded here

Four hectares of small rectangular fields still mark the southern spur of Tlachta, their ditched edges waiting beneath the grass. The layout suggests deliberate human shaping, perhaps farmland or managed land, yet no surviving account names the people who cut those lines. The geometry resists easy explanation, preserving more absence than certainty.

Situated on a SE-NW spur of the Hill of Ward, or Tlachta. A remote sensing survey (12R0057) confirmed the ring-ditch (ME030-038001-) and also identified evidence of a field system (TLN1) where the fields appear to be small rectangular areas (dims c. 40m x c. 40m) defined by single ditch features, but the fields cannot be connected directly with this ring-ditch or the linear earthworks (ME030-038----). Two small enclosures (dims c. 20-25m) on either side of an E-W field boundary ditch may be settlement enclosures or smaller fields. The recorded fields cover an area of c. 4 ha, but they undoubtedly extend further. (Davis 2017, 6) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 April, 2017

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