Welsh Roundhouses: House Data

Single house record for Bush Farm

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Record number: 41
Site name:Bush Farm
Site number: 12
Location: A
Approx. early date: 0
Approx. late date: 400
% excavated: 75-100%
Internal diameter: 5.45
Area: 23.3
Shape: circular
Wall material: stone inner and outer face with rubble and earth core
Stone wall: Yes
Rubble/earth core:Yes
Width of outer wall: 1.2
Hearth: Yes
Hearth details: shallow depression next to fired clay spread, overlain by charcoal
Drain:Yes
Postholes:Yes
Feature details:'drain' may be internal partition
Door orientation: NE
External width: 1.5
Internal width: 1.75
Annexe details: enclosure wall
Vessels: various
Metalworking non-FE: left
Pre-house activity: pit 206 containined prehistoric pottery sealed by house, possibly contemporary with house 40
Notes:RB pottery. Wider wall ends at entrance. Door posts. Possible smelting and casting of non-Fe metal in left zone. More than one construction phase?


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