Archaeology Notes

Event ID 681869

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO09SE 5 050 926

Three-sided enclosure, 30m by 30m, abutting a three-partitioned longhouse 15m by 6m, with adjacent stone foundations. A longhouse with circular kiln on the bluff edge of 3m diameter, extremely well preserved and open to 2m depth. Longhouse 15m by 6m. Longhouses, 12m by 6m and 8m by 4m, each abutting a three-sided stone enclosure. Rig and furrow and many stone clearance heaps.

J S Smith 1987.

Footings of depopulated township on S- and SW-facing slope. Rectangular footings of structures with field banks, enclosures and areas of rig below head-dyke. Probably cleared c. 1776.

NMRS, MS/712/9.