The Roman period
Having worked in Chester, a city obsessed with its Roman past, it was a real relief to find that there was no evidence for Romano-British occupation of the rock shelter. Not even the tiniest scrap of Roman pottery was found.
The medieval period
After the apparently Early Iron Age activity on the site, we have little evidence for its use until the later Middle Ages. A few sherds of Ewole type pottery, dating from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, have been found. They may be connected with the construction of a short drystone wall across the top of the talus, running from the Bronze Age structure to the mouth of the cave. It looks a bit like a windbreak. As there is no other sign of activity at this time, it may have been nothing more than a temporary shelter, perhaps for shepherds or farmers to use as a refuge during bad weather.