More information : A small, D-shaped enclosure of considerable antiquity
is situated at SO 33369447 upon a north-west-facing, heather-
and-bracken-covered slope of Heath Mynd. (Upon the summit of
Heath Mynd is a Bronze Age cairn (SO 39 SW 21), and
immediately to the south-west is a system of field lynchets of
celtic type, (SO 39 SW 24).).
The enclosure mesures overall, 32.0m. north-east to south-west,
by 25.0m. transversely. The gently sloping interior, with traces
of a level platform in the south half, is bounded on the north-
east and south-west by an earth-and-stone bank, 5.0m. wide and
0.3m. maximum height, but generally not more than 0.15m. height. This
bank reduces to an outward-facing scarp, 3.0m. long 0.8m. high,
on the north-west, downhill side and an
inward-facing scarp, 4.5m. long, 1.2m. maximum height on the
south-east, uphill side.
A surface water hood around this side has silted up into a
platform about 1.5m. in width level with the top of the scarp, and
there is an entrance 2.0m. wide at the change of slope in the
south-side. The proximity of celtic fields and a cairn and the
general appearance suggests a homestead,perhaps of Bronze Age date.
Surveyed at 1:2500 onto M.S.D. (1)
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