Slate Hill Settlement

On Slate Hill there are four concentric ramparts, terraced on the sloping hillside, in a semicircle forming on the north and west sides of an enclosure; quarrying has affected the east side where one rampart remains. The ramparts, of stone and earth, are about 5 metres (16 ft) wide and 1.4 metres (4 ft 7 in) high. On the south side a steep slope provides defence. The enclosure within the defences is about 98 metres (322 ft) west to east and 62 metres (203 ft) north to south. A break in the west side is thought to be an original entrance.[1]

The site is regarded as an example of a type of defended settlement of the 7th to 5th centuries BC in the northern uplands of what is now England, sometimes located on hilltops. Within the enclosure there would be a number of stone or timber roundhouses for the inhabitants, probably a single family group, and perhaps space to keep livestock in winter.[1]

• Huckhoe Settlement, an Iron Age and Romano-British settlement
• The Poind and his Man, a Bronze Age burial mound
• Shaftoe Crags Settlement, a Romano-British defended settlement