More information : Centred NT 974 134. At 350 m OD in open moorland is a medieval or post-medieval enclosure of 1.9 hectares [NT 9713/5] containing a turf-covered area of broad ridge-and-furrow [NT 9713/10]. Two frail enclosures [NT 9713/6 and 7] are appended to the outside of the N and E sides of the main enclosure bank, and a similar feature [NT 9713/8] occupies the NE corner. A grass-grown circular construction [NT 9713/9] is visible just E of a more recent sheep stell [see NT 9713/11], both within the enclosed area. The enclosure NT 9713/5 is bounded by a broad turf-covered bank, 3.5 m maximum width and 0.6 m high, with traces of an outer ditch, visible up to 0.25 m deep in those areas where it is not silted or recut for recent drainage purposes. Along the line of the bank on the N side is a vague depression, approximately 6.0 m long. This may have been a stock shelter or bothy, but it is too amorphous to identify even as a building. Enclosure 6 is sub-rectangular, 24 m by 18 m, within a heavily silted bank, 1.5 m wide and 0.2 m maximum height. There is no trace of any internal structures or cultivation. It is very slight compared to the main enclosure bank [NT 9713/5] which it abuts, and may be earlier. Enclosure 7 measures 18 m by 16 m within a bank of similar proportions to 6. Again it is silted and the interior is featureless. No 8 is roughly rectangular, 13 m by 11 m, within a bank, 1.5 m wide and 0.3 m high, whose E end terminates on a low, shapeless mound, 0.5 m high. This bank appears to have continued eastwards outside the main enclosure bank [NT 9713/5], and the impression given is that 5 overlies it. No 9 is a well-proportioned circular feature, 5.5 m in diameter within a turf-covered bank, 1.5 m - 1.7 m wide and 0.15 m maximum height, in which no stones or entrances can be detected. It may be a stack stand or the remains of a turf-built sheep stell. The broad rig [NT 9713/10] within the main enclosure is well- preserved, the ridges being 4.5 m - 6.0 m wide. No trace of a farmhouse was found; it is possible that the land was worked from the farm [NT 9713/1-4] 370 m to the E. (1) |