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An enclosed settlement surrounded by a field system of large fields represented by stone banks and stone clearance heaps. Most substantial features are huts A and B on Ogston's plan which have stone walls 2.5m thick and sunken floors of 16.5m and 17.5m diameter, with entrances facing east and north respectively. A small souterrain, C, opens off feature D. In 1904 the Hon J Abercromby excavated huts H, B, A and D and found a stone disc, flints, charcoal, pottery fragments and quern fragments, and some pottery (glazed). Features L and K are enclosures, possible hollow ways. A re-excavation of structure D in the 1970s produced no dateable evidence, although soil pollen analysis suggested the existence of extensive pasture and some cereals. Sample excavation was carried out by R Bradley in 2016-17, with survey of the upstanding monuments. Re-opening of three antiquarian trenches investigate two souterrain structures and the junction between two overlapping roundhouse walls. The earliest dates associated with the lower roundhouse ranged between the early 2nd and late 1st century BC, and layers associated with the abandonment of the upper roundhouse dating to the 1st century BC to the earliest 3rd century AD. The new survey of the rest of the site provided additional details of walls and also identified another circular structure on the western edge of the settlement., marked by single large stones outlining a circle 12m in diameter. The new survey also confirmed Abercromby's and Ogton's observations that the positions of some of the roundhouses overlapped without completely removing earlier walls.
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