The Middle Ages

After the apparently Early Iron Age activity on the site, we have little evidence for its use until the later Middle Ages. A few sherds of Ewole type pottery, dating from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, have been found. They may be connected with the construction of a short drystone wall across the top of the talus, running from the Bronze Age structure to the mouth of the cave. It looks a bit like a windbreak. As there is no other sign of activity at this time, it may have been nothing more than a temporary shelter, perhaps for shepherds or farmers to use as a refuge during bad weather.