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Large stonewalled enclosure, probably of prehistoric date, within which lies a longhouse. Three hut circles lie on the lower west facing slope. The enclosure measures approximately 200 m by 150 m, defined by a bank up to 3 m across and 1 m high. A watching brief was carried out by MAS in 1996 over the construction of paths across Berry Hill. In general very little emerged on the paths on the lower slope of the hill, with the exception of two possibly modern boundaries. Further uphill, near the Iron Age hut foundation, two apparently linked sections of a boulder and stone alignment crossed the path lines. These may be the remains of a clearance line / field boundary (possibly Iron Age in date). Several interesting features were revealed relating to the hill top enclosure. There appears to have been a fairly prominent kerb of large boulders parallel to the outside drystone wall of the enclosure. Another feature suggesting a level of sophistication in the construction of the hill top enclosure was an area of stones set horizontally and interlocked, as if forming a revetting. A band of small cobble-sized stones some 12 m wide between this and the enclosure wall might be considered as a possible path. Both of these features were left in situ, covered by the modern path fill. Excavations of longhouse and surrounding area exposed flint debitage of probable Mesolithic date. Excavation of resistivity anomalies revealed a further flint scatter but no structural remains.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)