Cautley Iron Age Settlement by munki-boy
Cautley Iron Age Settlement
Cautley Iron Age Settlement is in The Yorkshire Dales National Park in England.
Earthworks and stone remains of an Iron Age settlement dating back around 2000 years.
Archaeologists have discovered the houses and fields of an Iron Age farming community in the valley below Cautley Spout, beside the Cautley Holme Beck. Iron Age people probably lived by grazing sheep and cattle and growing a few crops in their tiny enclosures, close to their simple stone and timber round houses.
What is unusual about this settlement is the fact that a stone-edged trackway leads from it straight to the base of the Cautley Spout waterfall and then stops. We will never know for certain, but it looks as if the falls may have had some special significance to these Iron Age people.
In medieval times, one of the many sheepfolds in the area was built over the ruins of the settlement.
Created: 20 January 2021 Edited: 29 November 2023
Cautley Iron Age Settlement
Cautley Iron Age Settlement LiDAR Map
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Local History around Cautley Iron Age Settlement
There are some historic monuments around including:
Castlehaw Tower, motte and bailey castle and Royal Observer Corps monitoring postDykes and mounds on either side of Scandal BeckFoundations N of St Oswald's Church.
