Archaeology Notes

Event ID 691670

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO64NE 27 670 499.

NO 670 499. A probable unenclosed settlement has been located SW of Ironshill on the E side of the railway. Two circular crop-marks, which measure about 10m in diameter, probably represent the sites of houses, and there is a circle of pits of similar dimensions near by. Another house, measuring about 8m in diameter, obscures the N corner of what is possibly an enclosure measuring about 25m square.

RCAHMS 1978

The circular arrangement of post-holes noted above could be interpreted as a house of individual post-hole construction, or, perhaps less likely, as a post-circle surviving beneath a ploughed-out barrow.

H Welfare 1980

Tolan notes a pit-circle partially obscured by the halo of a ditch at NO 6703 4498.

M Tolan 1988