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THE EXCAVATION
The site was excavated in
the 1950s and a wider area surveyed In 1985. Some Bronze
Age pottery was found indicating occupation
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The people lived in
round houses with thick stone walls and conical
thatched roofs. The earlier houses were small
and had doorways facing south-west; the larger
later houses had doorways facing south-east, towards
the sun but away from the prevailing winds. Fragments
of banks, perhaps walls of gardens or animal pens,
are attached to some houses. The surrounding enclosure
wall was built to protect their cattle and sheep
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detailed view
