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Paddock Hill
East Riding of Yorkshire, England · Atlas EN3002
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3002 (3002)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Historic county
- Yorkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Thwing
- National Grid reference
- TA 0300 7070
- Latitude
- 54.12207
- Longitude
- -0.42508
- Altitude
- 115 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.39 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- timber-framed wall and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and lowland
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC and 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses and rectangular structures
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, human bones, lithics, and environmental material
- Investigations
- Excavation (1973-1987)
Identifiers
- HER
- Humber Archaeology Partnership 3939
- National record
- record TA 07 SW 10; monument 79885
- Wikidata
- Q31112759
Sources
References
- Carruthers, W. 1993. Charred and mineralised macrofossils from Paddock Hill, Octon, Thwing, Yorkshire. Ancient Monuments Laboratory Report 14/93
- Manby, T.G. 1988. Excavation and Field Archaeology in Eastern Yorkshire: The Thwing Project 1973-1987. CBA Forum,16-18
- Stoertz C. 1997. Ancient Landscapes of the Yorkshire Wolds: Aerial Photographic Transcription and Analysis. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments