A small concentration of dwellings.
Within this category you have the following sub-types:
- Building Platform
- A site where a building once stood as identified by a level area of ground, often compacted or made from man-made materials.
- Deserted Settlement
- An abandoned settlement, usually of the Medieval period, often visible only as earthworks or on aerial photographs.
- Enclosed Settlement
- A site used primarily for domestic purposes on at least a semi-permanent or seasonal basis, and which has been surrounded by a bank and ditch, palisade, or some other form of enclosure.
- Farmstead
- The homestead of a farm consisting of a farmhouse and working farm buildings, with yards, other working areas and usually a garden to the house.
- Hillfort
- A hilltop enclosure bounded by one or more substantial banks, ramparts and ditches.
- Military Camp
- A site where a body of troops is temporarily or permanently lodged, with or without entrenchments and fortifications.
- Park / Garden
- A park is an enclosed piece of land, generally large in area, used for hunting, the cultivation of trees, for grazing sheep and cattle or visual enjoyment. A garden is piece of ground devoted to the cultivation o flowers, fruit or vegetables and/or recreational purposes.
- Villa
- A term for a type of house, with varying definitions according to period. Roman villas were high-status and usually associated with a rural estate, whereas Georgian and later period villas were often semi-detached, town houses.
- Watermill
- A mill whose machinery is driven by water.
