How is the stead split between people and animals? End and end, or
side and side? And which compass points are each of them at?
The map has an earthen ridge running roughly east-west, with the land
falling down towards water (Mud Lake to the north, the bay on the
river to the south) on both sides. The buildings are shown slightly
to the south side of the peak of the ridge (in the worst floods the
waters approach the top of the north side of the ridge, but are lower
on the south side). There really is no really flat area, so if the
main hall is running north-south, how do they deal with the changes
in elevation? Is the floor of the hall sloped or stepped? Or is the
north end sunk into the ridge, and the south end built up on a
platform? If the north end is for the animals, it may have a sloping
floor, being quite low at one end (the sheep go there?). The
southern part of the hall may only have to deal with three or four
feet of vertical drop off, which could be handled with only minor
digging at one end and build up at the other, but slope or stepping
could be a cool distinctive feature.