What is recorded here
Half a metre of wall still stands where a person once cut a room into the hillside. The little chamber leaned into the slope, faced the gap in the eastern wall, and kept a narrow western opening that widened into a small side nook. It was not a grand house, but a place for heat, tools, food or fear. Thirty-six metres west, a stream still moves through the valley, carrying the shape of that forgotten daily life.
The hut site is located on the southern side of the enclosure (CO092-088001-) and close to a gap in the eastern wall. It is circular in shape and partially dug into the slope at the W side. It measures, internally, 5m E-W; 4m N-S with walls surviving to a max H of 0.8m; 0.8m W with a possible entrance, 1m W, at the western end. The southern terminus of the possible entrance to the hut site forms a further small rounded ‘annex’ measuring 1.6m N-S by 1.4m E-W. The complex is c.36m west of a stream.
Compiled by: Tony Miller
Date of upload/revision: 4 March 2022
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