Archaeology Notes

Event ID 731304

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NY29NE 7 2535 9857.

(NY 2535 9856) Enclosure (NR)

OS 6" map (1965)

Jobey notes this feature as a settlement with secondary occupation of more recent date.

G Jobey 1971.

NY 2535 9857. Levelled into the hillside overlooking the White Esk to the W are the remains of an oval settlement. It measures 53.0m N-S by 46.0m within a mutilated earth-and-stone bank on all but the E side which is represented only by a back scarp. The bank measures up to 3.5m wide and 0.8m high. The mutilated entrance is in the N.

A disturbed scooped area in the SW may be the possible remains of a hut but without excavation this cannot be definitely determined. In the centre of the enclosure are the remains of a stone-built rectangular building of later date.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 27 August 1962 and (IA) 12 October 1973.

No change to previous field report.

Visited by OS (MJF) 1 September 1978.

This sub-circular enclosure is visible on Economic Forestry Group APs (71/162/011).

(Undated) information in NMRS.