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Eston Nab
North Yorkshire, England · Atlas EN0100
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0100 (100)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Yorkshire
- Historic county
- Yorkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Guisborough
- National Grid reference
- NZ 56759 18267
- Latitude
- 54.55648
- Longitude
- -1.12387
- Altitude
- 242 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- north, west, and northwest
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC, 800–400 BC, and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, human bones, lithics, and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1930); Other (1952); Excavation (1953); Other (1967); Excavation (1987); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Excavation (1927-1929); Excavation (1966-1968)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1011273
- HER
- Tees 65
- National record
- record NZ 51 NE 6; monument 27513
- Wikidata
- Q31112579
Sources
References
- Elgee, F. 1930. Early man in north-east Yorkshire. John Bellows: Gloucester. 154-6
- Hogg, A.H.A.1979, British Hill-Forts. An Index. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 62.
- Vyner, B. E. 1988. The hill-fort at Eston Nab, Eston, Cleveland. Archaeol J 145, 1988 60-98