More information : NT 918081 IA settlement at Hosedon Linn consists of 9
timber-built house sites marked by 'ring grooves' 0.5 to 0.7m wide;
the 2 longest having double rings 11m diameter. Faint traces of
short arcs may indicate rebuilding of houses, and a slight groove
on 2 sides of the site probably marks the site of a perimeter
palisade. A 6th or 7th C BC date is possible for these remains on
the evidence of radio-carbon tests on similar sites (Plan). (1)
Centred at NT 91700833 on a ridge 200m N of Hosedon Linn this
settlement is much as described, except that only 8 house sites are
visible. (see annotated plan attached). (2)
NT 9169 0837. Palisaded settlement 200m NNE of Hosedon Linn.
Scheduled RSM No 25014. A palisaded settlement of Early Iron Age
date comprising the remains of at least eight timber houses visible
as shallow circular grooves 0.5m to 0.7m wide. The houses range in
size from 7m to the largest of 11m in diameter; the two largest
houses are bounded by double rings. A slight groove, visible to the
E of the houses is thought to represent the remains of an oval rock
cut palisade trench which would have enclosed the houses. (3)
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