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Briel Nook Promontory Fort
East Riding of Yorkshire, England · Atlas EN3006
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3006 (3006)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Historic county
- Yorkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Flamborough
- National Grid reference
- TA 24606 71840
- Latitude
- 54.12732
- Longitude
- -0.09464
- Altitude
- 46 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort and hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.37 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory, hillslope, and lowland
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Excavation (1980); Other (2008)
Identifiers
- HER
- Humber Archaeology Partnership
- National record
- record TA 27 SW 55; monument 1525373
- Wikidata
- Q31112793
Sources
References
- Brigham, T., Buglass, J. and George, R. 2008. Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Bempton to Donna Nook. English Heritage Project 3729. Humber Field Archaeology and English Heritage, Humber Archaeology Report No. 235