(NY 823 969) A sub-rectangular enclosure visible on aerial photographs. (1)

Bounded by a strong rubble bank (3-4m wide and average height 0.7m) which is orthostatic in places, especially along the south west side. (See photographs). The enclosure is sub-divided by a bank of similar construction into two unequal courts, each with its own east facing entrance. The southern court contains two adjacent hut circles, one, 5.5m diameter, superimposed on the south west bank, and the other to the north formed by a rubble bank, 6m diameter internally and 10m externally. Each hut has an east facing entrance. A fragment of curved walling on the bank at the north west corner of the same court may indicate the site of a third hut.
Part of the lower stone of a rotary quern was found during field inspection on the south side of the south entrance and left in situ. See photograph.
The work is a fair example of the local Romano-British enclosed rectilinear type of minor settlement. Sketch survey at 1:2500. (2)

Additional references. (3,4)

Scheduled. (5)

Additional reference. (6)

General association with HER 8098 (unenclosed hut circle settlement), HER 8099 (Romano British homestead). (7)

Iron Age/Romano-British settlement recorded on HER, but nothing visible on lidar imagery to identify it as of this date. If is such a site then it appears to have been much disturbed in more recent times, with a possible sheepfold built within it. (8)

The Iron Age / Romano-British farmstead settlement comprises a rectilinear enclosure with sub-divisions 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. 8100), it is the easternmost of two such farmsteads located above the Wind Burn to the west of Nether Houses, the other being HER no. 8099 [UID 17337]. 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.

Though predominantly visible as earthworks, much of the settlement's rubble / stone structure is also visible. Alongside the two roundhouses described above (internal diameters of 6m) are several other curvilinear structures along the western and south-western sides of the enclosure, of varying size (1.5-4m) which may be further dwellings, structures or pens. The sub-division of the enclosure comprises the smaller, northern third of the farmstead and the larger, southern two thirds, both with entrances to the east. (9)