What is recorded here

Outside the burial ground in Raystown, shallow gullies kept a small living area dry while hearths and ash-filled pits marked domestic use between 660 and 870 cal. AD. The place sat beside death yet remained set apart, suggesting people valued a clear boundary between the living and the dead. Oats recovered from one pit hint at ordinary meals, warmth and repetition in a landscape already shaped for remembrance.

An area outside the outer enclosure of the burial ground at S was left outside the rectangular enclosure of Phase 3 but gullies on its perimeter ensured that it would remain dry. Habitation is indicted by the gullies, pits and hearths. The pits (max. dims 2.5m x 1.7m; D 0.5m) contained deposits of ash and a sample of oats yielded a C14 date of 660-870 cal. AD. Up to four hearths were recognised and four smaller pits, but only one posthole was present together with some metaled surfaces. Many of the features were truncated by the central millrace and were either directly beneath ploughsoil or some hillwash soils, which are the result of soilcreep from the top of the ridge. However, it might also have had some habitation during Phase 2. (Seaver 2009, vol. 1, 49-50, 66-67, 75-7) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 December 2021

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