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Settlement of stone-walled houses, stock enclosures and droveways. The site was systematically recorded by Sir Alexander Ogston (sometime physician to Queen Victoria) in 1931. The contiguous structures A, B and E on Ogston's plan have been interpreted as houses. Hut A is massively walled and sunken floored, measuring 19 m in diameter. Hut B appears to consist of a hut circle enclosed by a stone wall, measuring 18 m in diameter. Hut E measures 17 m in diameter with a souterrain opening off of it. There is a hollow way on the west side. Two enclosures (R and D on Ogston's plan) lie to the north and south of the huts. Enclosure D is contiguous with Hut A, and measures 19.5 m in diameter. It has a clearly defined entrance to the east. Enclosure R is not attached to a house, but one massive main wall of the surrounding field system runs north from its northwest corner. It is more irregular in plan, measuring 26 m east-west and 24 m north-south. The double walls (M on Ogston's plan) have been interpreted as a droveway. The surrounding birch woods contain many stone banks and walls of a sizeable system of large enclosures as well as traces of cord-rig cultivation. Survey and sample excavation was carried out in March 2016 - March 2017, Reopening of three antiquarian trenches investigated two souterrain structures and the junction between two overlapping roundhouse walls at the main group. Dates for the lower roundhouse ranged between the early 2nd and late 1st century BC, the upper one dating from the 1st century BC to the earliest 3rd century AD.
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