Iron Age defended promontory.


The site is protected by an earthen bank and ditch across the landward side, and on the north side by precipitous cliffs on the north and east. The bank is 7m wide with a maximum inner height of 1.5m and outer height of 2.2m. A ditch to the landward of this is 6m wide on average and 1m deep, though it has suffered plough damage.


Excavation by PS Gelling in 1957 showed that the rampart was later faced with dry walling inside and out and was 3.8m wide. Gelling believed that both faces were part of a period of medieval reconstruction, since they stood on a layer of slatey rubble and building stone, which he thought was Iron Age in origin. This interpretation is crucial in establishing an Iron Age date for the origin of the site, as no Iron Age features were recognised within the defended area of the promontory, and had presumably been effaced by later medieval activity.