Summary
The northern side of the earthworks of a suspected Iron Age ritual enclosure
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Monument Types
- BOUNDARY BANK (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
Description
This complex of features, now separated from the rest of the enclosure by a field wall, appears to form the northern side of East Witton Camp. The primary components are a bank running from the track 31478, E to Red Beck. The western 30m of this is fairly straight, meandering slightly northwards further E. The bank up to 1.5m high and 4m wide, lies c.5m N of the field wall.
To the S of the bank the ground undulates considerably - though it is far from clear what is natural and what is man-made. A series of "lobes" of mounds emerge from under the wall, corresponding with undulations in the N part of the main enclosure. The hollows N of the wall run into a larger E/W aligned hollow adjacent to the above-described bank.
The most convincingly anthropogenic of the "lobes" is the most western, not being clearly paralleled S of the wall. It is up to 80cm high and 3.5m broad, tapering to the NW and curving. Given its form and position it may possibly be part of the original entrance arrangements - the entry being fossilised by the current field gate - or the whole thing could be simply the result of excavation for the recent water pipe trench!
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