Glen Sleatdale

NC91SW 7 9293 1270 to 9304 1269.

(A - NC 9292 1269 : B - NC 9304 1268) Enclosures (NR)

OS 6"map, (1963)

Two circular enclosures were found during fieldwork.

Visited by OS (E G C) 1 June 1961.

Two stone-walled hut circles (A and B) at corrected grid references NC 9293 1270 and NC 9304 1269 respectively, situated in open heathland to the north of an old river terrace.

'A', on the edge of a slope, is about 10.0m diameter within an ill-defined wall surviving a a sparse band of overgrown rubble spread to 2.0m; the wall has been further obscured by a rough track crossing the north arc. A depression in the east arc may indicate an entrance.

'B', levelled into a low rise and peat overgrown, is well preserved. It is 11.0m NNW-SSE by 10.5m inside a wall spread to 3.0m. The east side of an entrance in the SSE still retains a lining of stone slabs, indicating a wall thickness of about 2.0m at this point. A break in the wall in the ESE is a modern mutilation. About 120.0m to the ESE are ruins of a dwelling and enclosures of 18th/ 19th century abandoned settlement. Contemporary cultivation is restricted to a well-defined lynchet about 55.0m south of hut 'A' crossing the slope, and containing between it and the hut an elongated area, of smooth, heather-covered ground free of stone.

Revised at 1/10,000.

Visited by OS (J M) 15 January 1976.