Not to be confused with Don Rankin's dry stone edifice 'The Fort', this sculpture by Nigel Lloyd was located near to another of Lloyd's works, 'For The Birds'. Lloyd used this clearing to create a seemingly long-abandoned industrial site, and gave a sizeable interview to the long-forgotten art magazine 'Aspects - A Journal of Contemporary Art'. In it, he described the making of the sculpture:

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"The third piece, 'Fortress', came about from an idea generated through the second piece and at the same time hearing a radio play about a chap who crossed the empty quarter of the Sahara Desert and ran out of water. It made me think of old, dried-up wells surrounded by broken-down walls. Below the second piece I found an area of flat ground (very unusual in the forest where everything seems to be at some strange angle), ideal to site 'Fortress' and heightening the idea of the viewer walking through the work and seeing new things, as from my second piece one can see the third piece, and vice-versa. Elements in both pieces look similar although it is the generation of the idea which is different."

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Also by this artist:

For The Birds 1983

Half Moon Stakes 1983

Monument To Satterthwaite 1983

Stone Red Wallow 1983