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Ring-ditch in Beaconstown

Ring-ditch

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Five shallow ditches circle each other in Beaconstown like forgotten coins, their edges visible only when dry soil holds more water than crowded fields. A larger ringfort shadow sits beside them, suggesting the small circles belonged to a place old enough to stop announcing itself. They may have marked graves, boundaries or temporary shelters, but the land has kept their shapes long after human names disappeared.
Aerial photograph (CUCAP ASU 65), shows cropmarks of what are probably five small ring-barrows or ring-ditches (KD037-031001-/005-), in close proximity (est. max diam. c. 15m), defined by cropmarks of fosses. Cropmark of probable ringfort (KD037-019----) is adjacent. Date of upload: 15 September 2016

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