More information : NT 978 135. At 320 m OD, on a gentle SE-facing hillslope in open
moorland, are the remains of a medieval or post-medieval hill-farm
comprising a house [NT 9713/1] within an enclosure [NT 9713/3], the
latter containing fragmentary traces of broad ridge-and-furrow [NT
9713/4]. Abutting the N side of the enclosure is a rectangular
building [NT 9713/2]. All of the structures are reduced to turf-
covered footings, and the S part of the enclosure is obscured by
marshy silting, and mutilated by later drainage channels.
House 1 is 13.3 m E-W by 3.0 m transversely within a stony bank
spread to 1.7 m wide and 0.2 m high. The house is sub-divided by a
cross-wall towards the W end. No wall faces or entrance(s) can be
seen. This is, almost certainly, a farm house.
Building 2 measures 4.8 m by 2.6 m within a stony bank spread to 1.2
m and 0.2 m high; no wall faces or entrance is visible. It adjoins
enclosure 3 and may have been a cattle shed or hay-store contemporary
with the farm house.
Enclosure 3 is 250 m E-W by approximately 80 m transversely
(c. 1.75 hectares) bounded by a stony bank, at best 3.0 m wide and
0.6 m high, with traces of an outer ditch, 0.25 m maximum depth,
around the N side. At the W end of the enclosure are the
fragmentary, unsurveyable remains of ridge and furrow, obscured by
sheep tracks and bracken growth. (1) |