What is recorded here

Half-buried beneath modern soil, the lost village still holds its shape: narrow western strips, a broad eastern enclosure, two small three-roomed houses aligned along a sunken way, and a round mound that may have carried a windmill. People likely lived there when Tlachta’s slope gave them rain, shade and a view wide enough to feel owned. The plough took some of it, but the ground keeps repeating the layout, as if memory preferred angles to forgetting.

Located at the bottom of the E-facing slope of the broad Hill of Ward or Tlachta. An area of habitation plots, fields and a sunken hollow way were identified on LiDAR material within a subrectangular field (max. dims c. 350m NE-SW: c. 170m NW-SE) (Davis, 2011, 39) before it was partially ploughed. There is evidence of narrow land divisions (dims c. 65m plus NE-SW; c. 25m NW-SE; H 0.2-3m) running along the W side of the area with a larger rectangular field (dims 120m NW-SE; c. 100m NE-SW) just to the E. This large enclosure has a raised rectangular area (dims c. 28m x c. 14m) at the E angle and a raised circular feature (diam. c. 25m; H 0.6m) outside the W angle, which is interpreted as a possible windmill mound. A remote sensing survey (12R0058) recovered evidence of two three-roomed house sites (dims c. 15m NW-SE; c. 4-5m NE-SW) located on a NNW-SSE street or hollow way that are probably associated with the smaller W fields. Three areas that are interpreted as possible middens were also identified. (Davis 2017, 7) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 21 April 2017

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