Home Farm, Derry Ormond, defended enclosure

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Royal Commission aerial reconnaissance on 9th July 2018, during the 2018 drought, recorded extensive cropmarks of a large concentric antenna-style defended enclosure of Iron Age type, located in on a south-facing hillslope below the summit. It seems that the north-eastern arc of the outer enclosure was recorded as a cropmark on 21st July 2006. These new photographs show a sub-rectangular, broad-ditched settlement enclosure around 85m across set just above the tree line with a SW facing gateway. Two narrow palisade-style ditches run out from the gateway, linking to a wide outer curvilinear enclosure around 270m across. Several pits or house platforms are visible on cropmarks within the central enclosure, and on the approaches. The site would repay geophysical survey.

T. Driver, RCAHMW, 2023