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) |