Archaeology Notes

Event ID 665926

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ23NE 5 275 382.

Centred at NJ 275 382 is a settlement of four circular stone walled huts and a contemporary field system.

Hut 'A' measures 12.7m in diameter internally with a wall 1.1m thick in which several inner and outer facing stones are evident. The simple entrance in the E is flanked on each side by two earthfast stones and is 1.1m wide.

'B' is about 9.5m in diameter between the centres of a mutilated wall spread to an indeterminate width, which is cut in the E by a drain. The entrance in the NW is ill defined. Modern field clearance stones are piled against the W arc.

'C' is 13.9m in diameter internally within a wall 1.6m thick with outer and inner facing stones visible intermittently. The simple entrance in the E, 2.0m wide, is flanked on each side by a single stone, that on the S side lying prostrate.

'D' is about 10.0m in diameter between the centres of a wall spread to about 2.5m where best preserved in the W, but obliterated by peat in the NE. The entrance is not evident.

The field system comprises stone clearance heaps, lynchets and an occasional field wall, with cultivation plots varying between about 40.0m by about 30.0m and about 15.0m by about 10.0m.

Huts surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (A A) 6 April 1971.