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Although there is no significant settlement on the site at any time in history, the place does bear a profound imprint of ordinary human life and labour over extended periods of time. These signs are not obtrusive and the most obvious are the cart ruts and the system of terrace walls and fields.

Parker and Rubenstein have positions a connection between the Cart Ruts and the terracing, arguing that the two were produced at the same time; that is that the ruts appeared as the consequence of the need to transport material for the creation of the terracing. This is still a matter of historical speculation and dispute; on the other hand it is clear that the sense of antiquity of the site is amplified by the contrast between these two systems. The cart ruts represent a type of ancient infrastructure, apparently connected with movement repeated over long periods. Today however they present the past as a distant and separate reality.