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ANTONSTOWN

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The earthworks and buried remains of Antonstown medieval deserted settlement. It is located on the hillside 450 metres south east of Crew Farm and includes the turf covered remains of two houses, possibly bastles, and two sub-rectangular stock enclosures; one of the enclosures lies to the north of Fountain Sike while the remainder of the monument is situated south of the sike. The southern house lies with its long axis aligned east-west and measures 20 metres by 7 metres externally with walls 1.2 metres wide and up to 0.5 metres high. The second house, with its long axis at a slight angle to the first, measures circa 12 metres by 5 metres externally with walls 1.2 metres wide and up to 0.5 metres high, and is subdivided into two rooms of unequal sizes. A short distance north of the second house is a stock enclosure measuring 18 metres by 12 metres internally which is bounded by a turf and stone wall 1.2 metres wide and up to 0.8 metres high. There are narrow entrances at the south west and north west corners of the enclosure. On the northern side of Fountain Sike are three sides of a larger enclosure measuring circa 30 metres by 20 metres which is bounded on three sides by a turf and stone wall. The enclosure's north east wall has been partly disturbed by a later field dyke while Fountain Sike appears to have formed the boundary on the enclosure's south east side. A later field dyke also crosses that part of the monument to the south of Fountain Sike. The settlement was not included in the 1839 Tithe Award and is thus thought to have been abandoned by that date. Scheduled.

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