Excavation

Date 1995

Event ID 1108356

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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NX 808 846. Excavation in 1995 of a site surveyed in 1991 revealed two buildings with distinct characteristics. Building A, orientated E-W, showed domestic occupation of the late 17th and 18th centuries (ceramic assemblage). It probably had a wooden floor. The walls, 1m thick at the base, were well-built and capable of supporting substantial roof timbers. No evidence was found of wall plates or pads for cruck construction and there was no evidence of roof slates. Fragments of window glass also suggested a building of some quality. The gable-end free-stone fireplace was particularly well-built, reinforcing the interpretation of this building as a dwelling house.

Building B, squarer in plan and less well-constructed, lay up against the first building but was not abutted onto it. This building lay N-S, with a 2m entrance on the E side. The flag flooring, of this and the area in front of it, made from the flat edges of otherwise irregular boulders, suggests a stable or milking parlour where there was the necessity for a hard-wearing surface that could withstand the pressure of large animals? hooves.

Sponsors: Henry and Laura Gough-Cooper.

C J Crowe 1998.