Welsh Roundhouses: House Data

Single house record for Cefn Graeanog II

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Record number: 16
Site name:Cefn Graeanog II
Site number: 22
Location: J
Approx. early date: -200
Approx. late date: 100
% excavated: 75-100%
Internal diameter: 5.2
Area: 21.2
Shape: circular
Wall material: stone inner and outer facing, stone core
Stone wall: Yes
Width of outer wall: 1.2
Hearth: Yes
Hearth details: left of centre, charcoal and red burnt clay lining
Floor details: two floor deposits
Postholes:Yes
Stakeholes:Yes
Feature details:stakehole and posthole near hearth
Door orientation: N
Pre-house activity: agricultural phase 400-200BC. Soil under hut cut into lynchet, on agricultural soil (inc. wheat and corn spurrey)
After use: abandoned, increase in tree cover, rubbish layer
Notes:house built 200-150BC - was isolated hut


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