Archaeology Notes

Event ID 715095

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT33NE 1 351 376.

(NT 3511 3763 and NT 3505 3760) Enclosures (NR)

OS 6" map (1964)

A scooped homestead, measuring 85' x 75' internally, is situated on the steep SW face of Purvis Hill. The enclosing wall has been largely obliterated, but a few facing stones still visible on the S side indicate that it was originally 9' thick. A gap on the ESE, 9' in width, marks the position of the entrance. Within the grassy interior, the level of which falls 10' N-S, there is a platform large enough for two timber houses.

RCAHMS 1967, visited 1961

The above, as described, was noted as an enclosure by the OS, who also noted, about 65m to the SW, the fragmentary remains of another enclosure, mutilated by the angle of a dry-stone dyke. It appears to have measured about 44.0m E-W by 28.0m. The small portion of the bank remaining on the W side of the wall is 5.0m wide and 1.0m high (externally). Only a very slight bank can be seen in the cultivated ground within the stone dyke.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 23 June 1961

The scooped homestead at NT 3611 3763 appears very prominently on the S slope of Purvis Hill and is generally as described. The enclosure is as described by the OS field surveyor (WDJ) and is now in very poor condition. Its date and purpose are uncertain.

Visited by OS (BS) 2 September 1974.