Mitchell, S. and Anderson, S. (2011). A Rural Medieval Settlement and Early Iron Age Funerary Remains at Hallhill, Dunbar, East Lothian. York: Council for British Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1017938.

A description of the square ditched enclosure which is undated. A nearby pit contained fragments of a human skeleton which has been radiocarbon dated to the late Bronze Age or possibly very early Iron Age.

An assemblage of 1053 pottery sherds comprised mainly Scottish gritty ware with some Scottish redware and Rhenish stonewares. Copper alloy objects included costume fittings, vessel components and ferrules. Iron objects included an arrowhead, blades, a hasp and a possible spur arm. Window and vessel glass included a fragment of medieval window glass. Spindle whorls, a trough and a pivot stone were among the worked stone items. Animal bone was mainly cattle, sheep/goat, horse, pig and dog. Marine shells were mainly young periwinkle and limpet which would have been used as fishing bait.

The features are difficult to relate to previously excavated rural medieval settlements and this may in part be due to the level of truncation. The dating evidence spans the 12th-15th centuries with a possible focus in the 13th-14th centuries. There is evidence for farming and stock-rearing, exploitation of animals for food, skins, wool and horn, grinding of grain, possible hunting and exploitation of marine resources.