ANCIENT SETTLEMENT ON 'XEE"WORTHA MARSH. 65 



Ou the west end of this house is a passage between its wall 

 and the shelter-bank. This bank slopes down to the moor sur- 

 face rapidly on the west, but was walled towards the east. The 

 passage is 3-ft. 3-in. wide, and was provided at the north end 

 with granite jambs, to serve as doorway. The lintel, if there 

 was one, is gone. 



We come now to Hut F. This has been pretty thoroughly 

 explored. It consists of a single chamber, measuring 11 -ft. by 

 10-ft. It lies to the east of the other habitations, and has the 

 peculiarity of possessing enormously thick walls to the east and 

 west, seven and ten feet in diameter. On the south was a paved 

 entrance from what may be called the village green, that led to 

 a sunken way continued about 250-ft. to the marsh, protected on 

 each side by a wall of upright stones. After entering this 

 sunken way, a door opens on the left, 10-ft. down ; it is some- 

 what askew, and the floor is paved. The jambs are 2-ft. 6-in. 

 apart, and rise but 1-ft. 8-in. from the threshold stones. The 

 lintel is 4-ft. 6-in. long. It was lying with the jambs, fallen, 

 but we have set them up. The door is unusually low, and the 

 hut must have been entered not crawling on all fours — that 

 would be impossible, but wriggling in side^ways. In the western 

 wall which is 7-ft. thick is a locker, the floor of which is but a 

 couple or three inches above the floor of the chamber. The 

 locker is four feet deep, and is in two stages, rising a step haK 

 way in. The height is 2-ft. 3-in. at the mouth. It has two 

 granite coverers in situ, never displaced. 



The waU to the north of this locker is very ruinous, as is 

 also a portion of that at right angles to it. In the floor were 

 two stones set up on their edge, rising about 1-ft. 3-in. above the 

 floor, and enclosing a portion of the area, very much in the same 

 manner as in the Hebrides to this day, in some of the turf and 

 stone hovels, curbstones are set up in the floor to serve as seats 

 by day, and to form the bounds of a bed at night. 



The east wall contains an oven built in the same fashion as 

 that in Hut B- The floor is level with the floor of the hut. The 

 dome has been burnt and has crumbled in. There can be no ques- 

 tion as to the purpose of this construction, the stones reveal the 

 action of fire. Close to the oven, separated from it by a narrow 

 wall, is a singular long hole, running 7-ft. 6-in. into the depth of 



