What is recorded here

Folkstown Little held a small outbuilding where dry-stone walls enclosed a narrow space and a shallow gully cut through the floor. Medieval pottery filled the deposit above those walls, suggesting the room stored or prepared things for nearby lives. A single wheat grain preserved inside the structure points to the years 1256 to 1376 AD, when people may have worked there before the walls fell and dirt buried them. The building no longer stands, but its shape and contents still distinguish it from ordinary ground.

This structure (4m x 2.5m) excavated in advance of a proposed development (Licence no. 08E054EXT) was defined by the remains of two dry-stone walls sealed by a large deposit containing a substantial amount of medieval pottery. A small gully was located within the interior. The structure was interpreted as an outbuilding. It was associated with a cluster of stakeholes. Radiocarbon analysis of a naked wheat grain from this feature returned a calibrated date of 1256-1376 AD (Kyle 2011, 49). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 2 February 2015

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