Wardhouse, Home Farm

NJ53SE 8 5704 3025 and 5702 3022

See also NJ53SE 9.

Situated on fairly level ground at the south end of a large field, are two circular enclosures. The larger of the two is at NJ 5704 3025 and consists of a turf bank 12.0m diameter and 0.4m maximum height; the bank is from 2.0m to 3.5m wide and there is a possible entrance from the

SE, although this side is much mutilated. The second enclosure, at NJ 5702 3021, is 11.0m diameter and is a turf bank with the odd stone protruding; the bank is 3.0m wide, 0.5m high and there is an entrance from the SE. (Probably hut circles.)

Scattered around the field are numerous, turf-covered mounds. Part of the field is under crop and several of these mounds have been levelled by the plough. The farmer at the nearby Wardhouse Home Farm stated that nothing had been unearthed during ploughing and that the mounds consisted entirely of stones.

In the same field is evidence of rig and furrow.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (EGC) 27 September 1961.

(Classified as hut-circles, field-sytem and rig). Air photographs: AAS/94/04/G8/8-15.

NMRS, MS/712/21.

(Classified as Site of Regional Significance). Hut-circles, enclosures and field-system, also fermtoun, surviving incomplete on gentle slope at altitude of 210m OD. The earlier site consists of two large roundhouses measuring up to 12m diameter, 2-3.5m wide and 0.5m high; clearance-heaps and field-banks mark field-system. Beside and partly overlying it is a medieval fermtoun consisting of the foundations of turf and stone enclosures representing houses, pens and yards. The rectangular houses of the fermtoun average 15m long by 4-8m wide. Areas of rig-and-furrow lie around with hollow-ways to E and W. A small area of narrow rigs is visible to the SW; these underlie the fermtoun making them earlier. [Air photographic imagery listed and geophysical survey report cited].

NMRS, MS/712/35.