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Grimthorpe
East Riding of Yorkshire, England · Atlas EN1802
Location
- Atlas number
- EN1802 (1802)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Historic county
- Yorkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Millington
- National Grid reference
- SE 81580 53433
- Latitude
- 53.97054
- Longitude
- -0.75779
- Altitude
- 158 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 3.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and berm
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall, timber-framed wall, and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- woodland and arable
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes and rectangular structures
- Finds
- pottery, human bones, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1853); Excavation (1868); Other (1958); Other (1973); Excavation (1958-1962)
Identifiers
- HER
- Humber Archaeology Partnership 4183
- National record
- record SE 85 SW 1; monument 61810
- Wikidata
- Q31112730
Sources
References
- Dymond, D.P. 1959. Grimthorpe: A Hillfort on the Yorkshire Wolds. Antiquity, 33, 131. 208-213
- Mortimer, J.R. 1869. Notice of the opening of an Anglo-Saxon grave, at Grimthorpe, Yorkshire. Reliquary, ix. 180-2
- Phillips J. 1855. The Rivers, Mountains and Sea-Coast of Yorkshire
- Stead, I.M., Jarman, M., Fagg, A., Higgs E.S. and Denston C. B. 1968. An Iron Age Hill-Fort at Grimthorpe, Yorkshire, England. Proc Prehist Soc (New Series), 34, pp 148-190.