Archaeology Notes

Event ID 716200

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT45SE 14 4704 5333.

(NT 4706 5333 and NT 4704 5330) Enclosures (NR)

OS 6" map (1970)

Two enclosures situated at the top of a SE-facing slope. The northernmost is sub-rectangular, measuring 17.0m NW-SE by 16.0m. It is formed by a low turf bank 0.4m high and is slightly scooped into the slope on the NW. There is a narrow entrance in the SE and the interior has vague traces of two small scooped areas. The other enclosure is sub-oval and measures 29.0m NE-SW by 24.0m. It is formed by a mutilated earth-and-stone bank and is scooped into the slope on the W. The bank has a maximum internal height of 0.9m and external height of 0.6m. The interior is divided into two levels by a scarp running NNW-SSE and there are two scooped areas distinguishable on either level. There is a narrow entrance in the NE. The area occupied by the enclosures has been used for quarrying and stone-dumping.

There seems little doubt that these are two scooped homesteads. (Information from K Steer, RCAHMS, 23 November 1954).

Visited by OS (WDJ) 7 January 1965 and (BS) 5 August 1975