Welsh Roundhouses: House Data

Single house record for Erw-Wen

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Record number: 25
Site name:Erw-Wen
Site number: 36
Location: timber phase
Earliest radiocarbon date: -790
Latest radiocarbon date: -400
Approx. early date:
Approx. late date:
% excavated: 75-100%
Internal diameter: 9.4
Area: 69.4
Shape: circular
Wall material: timber planks? with packing stones and slabs in trench 0.3m wide
Plank timber:Yes
Width of outer wall: 0.08
Internal post ring:Yes
Hearth details: stakeholes possibly associated with hearth (not surviving)
Floor details: not remaining
Pits:Yes
Postholes:Yes
Stakeholes:Yes
Door orientation: W
Internal width: 1
Door 2 orientation: E
Door 2 internal width: 1
Querns, mortars, grindstones: o wall
Pre-house activity: curving gully 5b an earlier phase? Slightly to SW with same diameter, 0.25-0.3m wide, with packing stones laid on edge. Relationship not given.
Notes:no phasing for some internal features in houses 25 and 26


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