Welsh Roundhouses: House Data

Single house record for Dan-y-Coed

View site details | All house records for this site | Search again

Record number: 131
Site name:Dan-y-Coed
Site number: 163
Location: IA-D
Earliest radiocarbon date: 250
Latest radiocarbon date: 600
Approx. early date:
Approx. late date:
% excavated: 25-75%
Internal diameter: 8
Area: 50.3
Evidence of repair:Yes
Repair/Rebuild details: Many phases; walls rebuilt in C and D. Period of disuse in B?
Wall material: stake in gully wall
Stake:Yes
Wall gully:Yes
Hearth details: none despite good preservation
Floor details: cobbled, phase B; gravel phase D
Postholes:Yes
Stakeholes:Yes
Drainage gully:Yes
After use: deposition of rubbish then successive 4-posters
Notes:phase A and B contemporary with or after rampart construction, possibly before rampart debris. Phase C post-dated rampart debris. Half truncated


 BACK   CONTENTS   HOME   COMMENTS 

© Internet Archaeology/Authors URL: http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue23/1/house.cfm
Last updated: Mon Nov 26 2007