| Catalogue Finding Number | WYHER/1981 |
| Office record is held at | Historical Environment Record, West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service |
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| Title | Clayton Wood |
| Description | This stone hut circle has been variously described as 'hut circles and field walls surviving as grass grown slight banks or ditches' (Johnson) and as a 'series of linear embankments enclosing roughly rectangular fields ' (Bastow). Since these comments the site has been investigated by English Heritage as part of their Monuments Protection Programme scheduling procedure.
The site consists of an irregular rubble banked enclosure with a probable hut circle at its east corner, and attached rubble and orthostatic field walls. The enclosure bank is 3m wide and 0.3m high and is made of sandstone rubble. There is a mound of sandstone rubble at the side of a modern footpath that crosses the enclosure. This rubble may represent the disturbed remains of an internal division of the enclosure and takes the form of a sub circular hollow bounded on its south and east side by a slight stony bank. Substantial remains of the prehistoric field walls are attached to the north and east sides of the enclosure. These are formed of rubble and are 3m wide, faced on both sides with orthostats. Additional but less distinct prehistoric field boundaries are visible to the west of the enclosure, from which stone may have been removed in order to build modern walls (such as those on the western edge of the monument which are also included within the scheduling).
The stone hut circle in Clayton Wood survives well. It is part of a wider area of prehistoric settlement which includes the stone hut settlement in Iveson Wood (1980). |
| Date | 20th century |
| Extent | contact the West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service for information on what is available |
| Level | Item |