Last year, an anchor weighing seven stone was also discovered at the site after excavators uncovered curved timbers that a backhoe brought up.

We slew her oarsmen as they came ashore and burned the ship at anchor, but the rats crept down the OARS and paddled to the quay on cold stone feet.

A sculptural stone fireplace occupies the centre of the house and is its social heart, acting as an anchor point from which the primary, elongated gabled roof form is hung.