NY 82259704 The much-mutilated remains of a sub-rectangular enclosure discovered during field inspection. The work was apparently bounded by a rubble bank, 3m wide and 0.6m high, still extant on the south side, and sub-divided by a similar bank. On the north west side only the base of the bank survives, while at the north east angle it has been completely destroyed, probably to build the adjacent 'bield'.
Internal remains consist of one stone-founded hut circle, internal diameter 5m and external 9m, mutilated by a later cross-wall and a second possible hut circle, suggested by a level circular area 7m diameter.
Although the remains are fragmentary, the work appears to be in the local Romano-British tradition, probably a homestead, and part of a small settlement complex (see also NY 89 NW 23 and 24). Surveyed at 1:2500. (1)

Additional references. (2,3,4,5)

Scheduled. (6)

Additional reference. (7)

General association with HER 8098 (unenclosed hut circle settlement), HER 8100 (Romano-British settlement). (8)

Earthworks of Iron Age/Romano-British homestead visible on lidar imagery. Part of a complex of settlements and field system in this area, much of the detail of which cannot be made out on lidar imagery although there are hints of field boundaries in the area around this settlement. The whole complex would be worth surveying on the ground in detail if not already done. (9)

The Iron Age / Romano-British farmstead settlement is as described by Authority 1 - a rectilinear enclosure with at least one sub-division and several roundhouses, visible as earthworks on oblique aerial photography and lidar imagery, and remaining extant on the latest 2016 aerial imagery. Recorded in the Historic Environment Record (no. 8099), it is the westernmost of two such farmsteads located above the Wind Burn to the west of Nether Houses, the other being HER 8100 [UID 17340]). These settlements are located within a wider field system (UID 1630873) of coaxial boundary banks enclosing cord rig cultivation, which may be contemporary, and are also close to a pair of possible unenclosed roundhouses (UID 17332) located just to the south-west.

The settlement is largely as described above, comprising a rectilinear enclosure with at least one sub-division, an entranceway to the east, one well-preserved roundhouse and a second platform which likely pertains to another dwelling. This most obvious part of the settlement is visible as earthworks on oblique aerial photography and lidar imagery, remaining extant on the latest 2016 aerial imagery (and with some stonework showing in the enclosure wall).

Lidar imagery also shows some heavily denuded banks enclosing a sunken area (potentially another yard) to the north of the more visible elements described above ' potentially the northern extent of the farmstead. These are truncated by the post medieval bield structure and a recent drainage ditch running north-west to south-east through the site. (10)