Two longhuts, side by side, are located on land falling away gently to the west within a more recent walled enclosure not portrayed on early OS maps.
SO1775009655: the southernmost measures 11m long (east-north-east by west south-west) and 5.3m wide overall, defined by spread stony banks 1m-1.5m wide and 0.25m high. There is no obvious entrance. The building rests on a sloping platform cut back into rising ground to a depth of 1.1m to form a hood 7m wide at its base and capped by a low bank about 1m wide and 0.1m-0.2m high.
SO1774209660: to the immediate north of the above, offset to the west, the second longhut measures 13m long and 5.5m wide overall defined by stony banks up to 1.5m wide and 0.3m high, and with an entrance gap in the north-west corner. A footpath cuts across the centre of the building. Like its neighbour, the building lies on a platform which measures 15.8m long and 6.5m wide. It is cut back into rising ground to a depth of about 0.6m, the hood so formed is unevenly capped with a bank 1.5m wide and 0.3m high. The gap between base of hood and building appears to have been ditched.
From the lower end of the hut a low stony bank projects south past its neighbour as if to form one side of an otherwise ephemeral enclosure.
Below the huts runs an embanked pathway or hollow trail, south-west to north-east between the walls of the more recent enclosure it bissects.
The longhuts are part of a broader landscape of platforms, enclosures and relict cultivation (NPRN 421645).
Source:
RCAHMW air photos: 995039-48/48A.
