Archaeology Notes

Event ID 730794

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NY29NE 1 256 996.

(Centred NY 2564 9963) Hut Circles (NR)

OS 6" map (1965)

Two turf-covered enclosures side by side, well defined and both equally obvious. Diameter of N one 5 yds. Diameter of S one 12 yds. (A small rectangle, rather rounded, ditch marked on W side; interior raised). No gaps for entrances to be seen in either.

Information from O G S Crawford 16 March 1939

NY 2561 9965. Situated obove the flood plain is a group of seven circular, turf-banked enclosures (A) varying from 5.0 to 8.0m in diameter and one oval enclosure (B) at NY 2560 9961, measuring 12.0 by 10.0m. They are all 'sod dykes' for use as sheep pens. See type site NY29NE 16.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 21 August 1962 and (IA) 9 October 1973

Photographed by the RCAHMS in 1980, who list these features as 'Enclosures and Ring-enclosures'. However, they do not appear in the list of sites and monuments in Upper Eskdale, and are therefore not considered to be antiquities.

RCAHMS 1980; (undated) information in OS archaeology record cards.