Earthwork at Lower Bathville
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Earthwork at Lower Bathville
Image: © Claire M Jordan Taken: 13 Jul 2011
The small standing stone was erected by the Boy Scouts during some kind of Millennium celebration, but I haven't been able to find out anything about the horseshoe-shaped earthwork. It definitely pre-dates the local housing estate, because it can be seen in aerial photographs taken before the houses were built. Somebody who has lived nearby for sixteen years told me it was there when he moved in. It doesn't seem to be a marker on top of a septic tank and it's too low and too small to be a sheep-fold, yet it's not marked on the OS map as an ancient monument either. Some kind of Victorian folly, possibly?
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Image Location
Latitude
55.896269
Longitude
-3.67892