Cautley Iron Age Settlement
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.
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