In area A2 the first recognisable dwelling was excavated during the second season. Finds of flint are extremely rare on this site, but what has been found indicate the dwelling is Mesolithic, because of the Microlith  which was excavated from within the green floor of the structure, under a clearly sealed context. The site however has an abundance of worked quartz and local stone tools. There is an extensive quartz seam in the local geology, which would have been abundantly available to the people in this valley. Whereas all flint would have had to come 14 miles up river from the sea or 5 miles overland through dense forests from the north coast. 

        The central floor of the dwelling is made of hard thick green clay. The outer area of the dwelling is covered with a stony yellow clay layer into which are the rows of stakes that could have formed the outer walls of the dwelling. Parts of this stony yellow clay are very thin and reveal the sand bank below. There is at the western end of the dwelling a porch or doorway area that divides the stony yellow deposit. This is cut through with a number of anomalous slits into the thick green clay.  In the yellow deposit to the right of this porch or doorway are  large slots clearly cut out of this stony layer. Just outside this porch or doorway to the left is an area of burnt clay suggesting an open fire. Also there appears to be some sort of partition of stakes directly next to the slot cutting across the yellow deposit into the green. There has been clearly many different structures or phases in this area.

       In the 2004 season we put three trenches in to find the extent of the green platform that this  structure has been set on and although we have now covered  18 metres extending into area E, area F and area L from the porch or door way to the end of the fourth trench we have as yet not got to the end of this man made  platform. In reports of E/F and L on this website you will see the later use of this area for some sort of 17^th pagan ritual purpose.