(NT 9780 2354) Old Sheepfold. (1)

Built on an old foundation not exactly followed. Bottom courses of original wall well built and faced. One hut at south end. Subsidiary buildings outside east and walls (remains) to east and north-east. Irregular line of stones 100x north. (2)

Situated on a natural level platform on the south-east face of the hill. An oval enclosure bounded by a wall of loose stones much spread in places, of maximum width 8m and maximum height 1.5m. In parts, it follows the course of an older wall which appears to be constructed of inner and outer faces of large coarsed undressed stones, filled with small rubble, of width 4m, maximum height 0.4m. No apparent original entrances to the enclosure.
Foundations of a small rectangular enclosure, probably a building, on the south side interior. Buried foundations of a rectangular building to the south-east. The original width of the wall is inordinately strong for a sheep stall. It appears to have been some fortifed enclosure of unknown date.
The nearest water supply is a stream to the south. The stones referred to appear to be the remains of a circular sheep fold with side wings. No apparent traces of antiquity. The wall remains to east and north-east, referred to, are too fragmentary for any conclusions to be drawn. (3)

It is clear that a substantial dry-stone walled enclosure of Scottish 'Dun' type, existed prior to the sheepfold, and that it is unlikely to be its forerunner. Such a work is however unprecedented locally and the classification must therefore remain uncertain. Revised at 6 inch scale. (4)

Situated on a natural level platform on the south-east slopes of Brands Hill at approximately 950 feet OD there is a near-circular stone-walled enclosure, much robbed during the construction of a sheep fold and lambing pens etc. which overlie it. The walling, masked by tumbled stone from the ruined sheepfold, is constructed of substantial inner and outer facing stones with a rubble core, and measures 4m in width with a maximum height of 0.4m. It encloses an area about 30m in internal diameter and there is a probable entrance in the east side.
Some 100m north east of the enclosure there is a small field system of near-rectangular fields defined by slight stony banks, which is probably contemporary.
Though somewhat larger in diameter, the general construction and topographical position of the enclosure invite comparison with the Scottish Glen Lyon-type homesteads dated to the Roman Iron Age (cf NN 44 SE 7 ). (5)

No conditional change since report of 14/8/70.
Perambulation failed to reveal any further extent of contemporary field system, the known area of which covers about 1-1/4 hectares on a gentle east facing slope.
Enclosure and field system surveyed at 1:10,000 on MSD. (6)

NT 978236: The dilapidated circular stone enclosure on Brands Hill South contained in its outer walls the foundations of two medieval or post-medieval houses. Further to the east are several sub-rectangular stone foundations which might be sheilings. In the vicinity of the enclosure there has been extensive stone clearance resulting in a scatter of stone cairns. (7)

NT 979236. Brands Hill South possible unenclosed settlement. (8)

Visible on aerial photograph. (9)

A complex of linear features, presumed to be field walls, enclose an area of about 6ha. The walls are between 0.3m-0.6m high. Two complete enclosures are visible at the south-east corner. Within the complex there is no sign of hut circles or other earthworks.
Within 100m are at least ten clearance cairns, an L-shaped bank possibly representing a wind break for stock; and the defended settlement 50m to the south-west. (10)

Scheduled. (11)

NT 978 236. Oval stone enclosures and field system SW of Brands Hill. Scheduled No ND/535. (12a)