During monitoring of that work, archaeologists identified not one but a cluster of Bronze Age round houses, standing side by side on a slight rise in the bog, preserved by the very conditions that had made the land marginal and difficult for centuries since.

Excavation revealed three round houses, labelled A, B and C, which appear to have been contemporary with one another, occupied at roughly the same time and arranged close together. House A was the largest, roughly nine metres in diameter, its circular wall defined by a slot cut into the ground, with occasional stake-holes suggesting the walls were built from wattle, a technique involving woven branches packed or plastered with clay. Six post-holes arranged in a ring inside the wall-slot indicate internal roof supports. House B, immediately to the north and slightly smaller at around eight metres across, followed a similar arrangement, with its own ring of stake-holes and a doorway, like House A, oriented to the south-east. House C was only partially recoverable, disturbed by a later field boundary and tree-line, though its south-east-facing doorway survived. Two further structures, D and E, complicated the picture: Structure E appeared to predate houses A and B and was partly cut through by their construction, while Structure D to the south remained ambiguous in both function and form. Among the finds were coarse pottery consistent with Bronze Age manufacture, a fragment of a saddle quern (a flat stone used for grinding grain), burnt daub, rubbing stones, hammerstones, a possible whetstone, and pieces of struck chert and flint. Together, they sketch the outline of a working domestic settlement, the kind of place where people ground grain, shaped tools, and built their lives close to one another on a patch of slightly drier ground surrounded by bog.