Single house record for Bryn Eryr
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Record number: | 37 |
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Site name: | Bryn Eryr |
Site number: | 10 |
Location: | A |
Earliest radiocarbon date: | -800 |
Latest radiocarbon date: | 390 |
Approx. early date: | -400 |
Approx. late date: | 390 |
% excavated: | 75-100% |
Internal diameter: | 8.5 |
Area: | 56.8 |
Shape: | circular |
Evidence of repair: | Yes |
Repair/Rebuild details: | Two phases |
Wall material: | clay walls, possible wooden lining on inside, structural postholes |
Wall slot: | Yes |
Cob or clay: | Yes |
Post: | Yes |
Width of outer wall: | 2 |
Periphery width: | 1.5 |
Hearth details: | none |
Internal partitions: | Yes |
Drain: | Yes |
Postholes: | Yes |
Stakeholes: | Yes |
Feature details: | light partition screen |
Door orientation: | E |
External width: | 2 |
Internal width: | 1.5 |
Porch: | Yes |
Drainage gully: | Yes |
Querns, mortars, grindstones: | various |
Vessels: | unknown |
After use: | fence crossing roofless house |
Notes: | In timber stockade, then earthwork built, continued into phase 2, not 3. Porch inside thickness of wall. In situ mortars. Granaries. Could be a turf structure |
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