Enclosure

The National Monuments Service's description

On a very gentle SSE-facing slope, in improved pasture, overlooking a gently undulating landscape. Depicted on the 25-inch OS map as a roughly circular area (c. 52m NW-SE; 53m NE-SW) truncated by a field boundary (long-axis NNW-SSE) off-centre to WSW. The monument is not visible at ground level on the WSW side of the field boundary. The remains of a semicircular area (48m NNW-SSE; 21m ENE-WSW) are preserved on the ENE side of the field boundary where there is a well-formed bank of earth and stone (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.1m; Wth at top 1.2m; Wth at base 7.9m) N-E-SSE. There is a possible entrance (Wth 2.25m) in the bank at NE. The interior is slightly raised (H 0.8m) above the external ground level. The interior and the enclosing elements are covered in heavy grasses and occasional clumps of briars with limestone rock outcrop close to the surface. There is no obvious trace of an outer fosse.

The following images have been uploaded:
CL035-038----_01.jpg From SSE. Extant half of monument in unimproved pasture.
CL035-038----_02.jpg From NNW. Cross sectional view of bank at E.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 9 January 2018