Observation

Date 1987

Event ID 623941

Category Recording

Type Observation

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Settlement on fan apex to west of plantation with extensive rig and furrow below. Linear stone clearance heaps 30m by 2m by 1.5m high. A longhouse, 25m by 4m, partitioned into two, abutting a 20m-square enclosure with a rectangular structure, 12m by 6m, at back. Rectangular house, 10m by 5m, with a 4.5m diameter kiln at west end set into a knoll. Longhouse, 15m by 5m, standing to seven courses, another 15m by 6m, each with extended stone platform in front, and their back foundations scarped into the fan. Stone clearance heaps partly overlain by natural fan debris stone spreads. L-shaped longhouse, 10m by 10m by 5m, with another partitioned longhouse 18m by 6m. Square enclosure 20m by 18m with 15m by 5m structure tacked on outside. An 18m by 5m longhouse set on outside of head-dyke.

J S Smith 1987