Welsh Roundhouses: House Data

Single house record for Woodbarn Rath

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Record number: 142
Site name:Woodbarn Rath
Site number: 172
Location:
Approx. early date: -400
Approx. late date: 0
% excavated: 75-100%
Internal diameter: 9
Area: 63.6
Evidence of repair:Yes
Repair/Rebuild details: section of gully in NW a rebuild? Or a second entrance or drainage
Wall material: wall gully filled with shale
Wall gully:Yes
Hearth: Yes
Hearth details: central area of burnt subsoil with post and stake holes
Postholes:Yes
Stakeholes:Yes
Door orientation: E
Pre-house activity: post holes, plough marks and earlier ditches
After use: four poster (stratigraphic relationship not certain)
Notes:another part of gully to E - probably a second structure


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