Note

Date 12 February 2016 - 31 August 2016

Event ID 1045340

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1045340

Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland

This fort or fortified settlement is situated on the summit of a low rounded hill in the angle of the track leading from East Reston down to East Reston Mill. Oval on plan, it measures about 70m from ESE to WNW by 50m transversely (0.27ha) within two roughly concentric ditches set between 7m and 10m apart. The ditches range from 3m to 5m in breadth and a large macula at the ESE end of the interior, almost certainly representing the eastern side of the shallow depression in the surface of the field observed by OS surveyors in 1966, has preserved the scar of a rampart some 4m in thickness on the ENE; allowing for its presence around the rest of the circuit, the interior enclosed about 0.2ha. In addition to the evidence of scooping at the ESE end of the interior, there are several other irregular maculae within the interior, though whether they indicate the stances of structures or simply other fragments of a scooped yard cannot be determined without excavation. The entrance is not visible but probably lies in the southern sector where it is hidden by the edge of the field and the adjacent track. There is no stratigraphic evidence to demonstrate whether the two ditches are elements of a single scheme, but if the were successive and the outer was once free-standing, it would have enclosed about 0.45ha within its rampart.

Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 31 August 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC4099