What is recorded here

Three or four hut marks crowded the inner NE wall of the Oughtdarra promontory fort when Westropp drew them in 1905, but by 1998 only one shallow oval remained visible. That much of the domestic quarter had vanished suggests these were small, temporary or repeatedly rebuilt shelters rather than grand permanent halls. People may have clustered beside the rampart because it gave structure, shelter and identity to the settlement.

In the NNE extent of a promontory fort (CL004-051----). The NE rampart is variously depicted by Westropp (1905, 344, 349) with three hut sites abutting the inner wall or with three hut sites abutting the wall and a fourth smaller hut site located to the SSW. Westropp (1905, 346) notes that ‘inside the wall are traces of hut-enclosures nearly levelled’ and Cunningham (1980, 18) also refers to ‘the remains of houses inside’. On field inspection in 1998, only one hut site (7m NW-SE; 5.5m NE-SW; H 0.5m; T 0.5m) was visible. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 13 June 2022

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