Welsh Roundhouses: House Data

Single house record for Melin Y Plas

Record number:	11
Site name:	Melin Y Plas
Site number:	54
Location:	house 2 (G2)
Earliest radiocarbon date:	0
Latest radiocarbon date:	1020
Approx. early date:	0
Approx. late date:	250
% excavated:	75-100%
Internal diameter:	8
Area:	50.3
Evidence of repair:	Yes
Repair/Rebuild details:	new drains in second phase, with small post- and stake-holes, wall possibly rebuilt (pits dug for clay after first phase, prior to AD40)
Wall material:	clay, cob or turf
Cob or clay:	Yes
Turf:	Yes
Width of outer wall:	2
Central zone area:	9.6
Hearth:	Yes
Hearth details:	burnt clay area F594. F69 in second phase? Pit under stony fill, against clay wall (with radiocarbon and cereal processing). Later hearth F620 to E of centre, shallow, capped with cobbles
Floor details:	clay
Drain:	Yes
Occupation deposits:	Yes
Postholes:	Yes
Stakeholes:	Yes
Other features:	Yes
Feature details:	water inlet, postholes across N of building
Door orientation:	S?
Drainage gully:	Yes
Lithics and production:	periph z
Querns, mortars, grindstones:	periph z
Burnt stone:	periph z
Vessels:	periph z
Peronal adornment:	unknown
Other metalworking:	various
CBM:	hearth
Pre-house activity:	terrace, possibly also forming a yard. May have had a boundary
After use:	midden layer accumulating - out of use by late c. 2nd? Site used for medieval crop processing
Notes:	Pre-ceramic c. 1st AD phase? Occupation phase c. 2nd AD mostly surviving. Abandon or dismantlement mid c. 3rd AD. Plough damaged. Chaff found in samples from drain. Second phase has water supply