The Clints

NT41SW 15 4453 1205.

(NT 4453 1205) The Clints (NAT) Earthwork (NR)

OS 25" map (1967)

Earthwork, The Clints: This earthwork occupies a rocky knoll 300 ft below and 700 yds SE of the summit of Whitcastle Hill. Oval on plan, it measures 130 ft from NE to SW by 105 ft transversely within a single bank aqnd external ditch. The bank, which was drawn round the margin of the summit area, has been formed of upcast from the ditch but is now in a wasted condition, while the ditch, encompassing the base of the knoll, is largely filled in. There is a well-defined entrance at the NE apex, but the interior contains no signs of structures. Small surface- quarries in the S half of the knoll have presumably given the site its name.

RCAHMS 1956, visited 1948

The remains of this earthwork are generally as described by the RCAHMS. The enclosing bank and ditch are now only evident on each side of the entrance, the ditch having a maximum depth of 0.4 m and the bank a maximum height of 0.3m internally. An old field bank overlies the enclosing bank on the NW side.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 10 February 1965

The earthwork, which is probably the remains of a settlement, is as described by the previous field investigator.

Surveyed at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS (JB) 20 December 1979.