Upperton

NH33SE 1.00 3950 3130 (Centred).

NH33SE 1.01 NH 3971 3143, Hut-circles; Pen; Boundary Dyke

NH33SE 1.02 NH 3917 3134, Hut-circles; Building; Small Cairns; Banks

NH33SE 1.03 NH 3952 3127, Hut-circles; Small Cairns; Boundary Dykes

NH33SE 1.04 NH 3963 3121, Burnt mound.

(Centred NH 395 313) Settlement and Field System (NR) (11 huts shown)

OS 25 " map, (1967)

A settlement of 13 stone-walled huts (A - N) and a contemporary field system. The interior of each hut is circular. The entrances, where visible, are in the SE. Huts C - L, and part of the field system, are mutilated by forestry ploughing.

Hut 'A' (unpublished) is c. 10.0m in diameter within a wall spread to c.3.0m in the NW, widening gradually to c. 3.7m at the simple entrance, c. 1.3m wide. One or two outer facing stones protrude in the NE arc. Some 4.0m outside the hut circle around the E arc is a linear clearance heap and around the N arc is a ditch, uncertainly contemporary for drainage, or natural.

'B' is c. 6.3m in diameter within a wall spread to c.2.5m in the NW widening gradually to c. 4.5m at the entrance. The SW side of the entrance extends outwards towards the SE for a distance of about 3.0m, possibly to form a windbreak.

'C', set into a NW-facing slope, is c. 13.0m in diameter within a wall spread to c. 3.0m all round. The entrance is ill-defined. A clearance heap overlies the wall in the S.

'D' is c. 8.0m in diameter within a wall spread to 3.0m widening to c. 3.5m where it is built up in the NW. The position of the entrance is not apparent. A clearance heap lies against the S arc.

'E', contiguous with 'D', is c. 8.0m in diameter within a wall spread to c. 4.0m widening to c. 7.5m at the mutilated clubbed entrance. There is no trace of an inter- connectng passage between the huts.

'F', approximately 9.0m in internal diameter, has been ploughed through, and no details are apparent.

'G' is c. 8.0m in diameter, within a wall spread to c. 3.0m widening to c. 4.5m at the entrance which is mutilated by ploughing.

'H' is c. 10.0m in diameter within a wall spread to c.5.5m expanding to c. 8.0m at the clubbed entrance.

'J' is c. 12.5m in diameter within a wall spread to c. 4.0m all round. A clearance heap lies against the wall to the SW of the mutilated entrance.

'K', contiguous with 'J', is c. 5.5m in diameter within a wall spread to c. 3.0m all round. The position of the entrance cannot be seen, and there is no trace of an interconnecting passage between the huts.

'L', set into a W-facing slope, is c. 6.0m in diameter within a wall spread to c. 2.5m all round. The entrance is denuded.

'M' is c. 8.0m in diameter within a wall spread to c. 5.5m widening to c. 7.5m at the clubbed entrance.

'N' (unpublished) is c. 10.0m in diameter within a denuded wall spread to c. 3.5m widening to c. 5.0m in the S. The position of the entrance cannot be ascertained. Around the N arc are several outer facing stones.

The field system, comprising field walls, lynchets, and stone clearance heaps, is best preserved in the vicinity of huts 'A' and 'M', where two fields measure c. 50.0m by 30.0m and 40.0m by 16.0m respectively.

Huts 'B' - 'M' surveyed at 1:2500. (Visited by OS (N K B) 11 December 1964) (Visible on RAF air photograph RAF/541/A/395:3163-4)

Extent of field system delineated on 6" sheet.

Survey Diagram.

Visited by OS (N K B) 5 October 1970