Ringfort - unclassified

The National Monuments Service's description

Not indicated on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps; identified from an aerial photograph (GSI M 553 –2; Roll 217, pr. 4; SMR file).
A D-shaped area (c. 34m NE–SW; 27m NW−SE to field wall) defined on the curving side at N–SW by a ruined stone bank (Wth 2-2.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.5m at E), and on the straight side at NW by a field wall on a NE–SW axis. The enclosing stone bank is reduced to a slight rise at N–NE. It is best preserved at E where it survives as a low rise of earth and stone, incorporating some loose field clearance stones. There are two adjacent breaks (Wth c. 3m) at SE–S and a larger break (Wth 7.3m) at SSW. The interior, which is not significantly raised above exterior ground level, has a slight slope down from centre to SE. Traces of cultivation ridges on a NE–SW axis, are evident in the interior, and can also be seen in the surrounding field to N and E. Slightly SE of centre, there is a partly sod-covered heap (6.5m NE–SW; c. 3m NW–SE; H 0.5m) of field stones.
The interior is grassy, and the enclosing stone bank is marked by sod and ferns. Remnants of an E−W field wall clip the SE–S edge of the enclosure.
This appears to be the SW half of an originally circular enclosure, but there is no trace now at ground level of the NW half of enclosure to NW of the field wall.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 30 June 2022