What is recorded here

Ring-ditch in Belcamp is a vanished circular earthwork, buried beneath a college playing pitch and visible only as a faint crop mark seventy metres above the Belcamp River. It may have been a ringfort, a boundary marker or a child's imaginary castle, but the ground still holds its shape after centuries of football and forgetting. The ditch refuses to disappear entirely, drawing moisture from below and marking itself in the grass whenever rain soaks the soil.

A circular ring-ditch visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Situated within an open field of tillage on what was once one of Belcamp College's playing pitches jc.70m north of a steep scarp which descends to a stream known as Belcamp River (Mac Shamhráin 1984, 141). There is a tradition of a ringfort on the grounds of the Oblate College at Belcamp Hall. It appears as a cropmark on an aerial photograph (OS 5092) and is visible on Bing aerial (viewed 27/01/2015). The cropmark is almost circular in plan (diam. c. 25m). Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: David O’Connor Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 27 January 2015

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