Archaeology Notes

Event ID 652263

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC91NE 58 centred 961 187

See also NC91NE 23.

Centred on NC 961 187 is a settlement of four stone-walled hut circles (A-D). The situation is the bottom slopes of a S-facing hillside. Three of the huts are set on natural terraces and the remaining one, 'B' is set into the base of a slope: the huts are peat obscured but seem broadly alike in construction, and the entrances where discernible are of a simple type.

'A' is 8.0m NNW-ESE by 7.0m internally; occasional inner and outer facing slabs indicate a wall thickness of 1.5m broadening to 2.0m or more at an entrance gap from the ESE.

'B' is the least well-preserved. In the NE where the slope has been cut into, only a tenuous scarp remains; elsewhere a wall of estimated thickness 1.3m is much depleted. The hut is 8.0m NW-SE by at least 7.0m internally; an entrance was from the SE.

'C' slightly levelled out of the slope inthe N arc, is 11.0m E-W by 9.0m within a wall of indefinite thickness; an entrance is in the E. The hut has been mutilated by an old trackway crossing the N half.

'D' is about 11.0m in diameter within a greatly reduced wall in which occasional outer facing slabs show; a wall thickness can not be ascertained. An entrance has been from the SE, where two facing stones of its SW side are visible.

Associated agriculture is noted in the vicinity of the settlement by a scattering of stone clearance heaps and odd rickles of linear stone clearance, but cultivation plots as such are not discernible.

Surveyed at 1:10,560.

Visited by OS (J M) 22 April 1976.