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<< Text Pages >> Staple Howe - Ancient Village or Settlement in England in Yorkshire (North)

Submitted by vicky on Sunday, 21 July 2002  Page Views: 10302

Multi-periodSite Name: Staple Howe
Country: England County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Ancient Village or Settlement

Map Ref: SE898749  Landranger Map Number: 101
Latitude: 54.162063N  Longitude: 0.626193W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Re: Staple Howe by Anonymous on Saturday, 02 September 2017
I remember visiting this site as a pupil of Norton Boys School with our then history teacher, Thomas Charles Malcolm Brewster (TCMB). A strict teacher but made the subject interesting.
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Re: Staple Howe by drolaf on Sunday, 25 June 2017
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Condition: not visible as earthworks, on Forestry Commission property. Easy access via path. Probably best to park on White gate by the dyke or in West Heslerton village. Alternately in Wintringham opposite the church.

A late Bronze/Early Iron Age palisaded hilltop enclosure situated on a natural chalky knoll half way down the northern scarp of the Wolds in Knapton, the pottery found suggested much earlier dates than the carbon dating.

The first early lightly-built stockade had three minor entrances as well as the main southern gateway. Inside was an oval hut 9.1m x 6.1m.
A later more defensive stout timber revetment packed behind with chalk, kept just the southern entrance. Two other round huts, the one at the western end with a diameter of 9.1m, appear to have south east facing porches. In the centre of the compound was a ‘four poster’ structure, possibly a granary or lookout tower.

Info from
Brewster, T C M, The Excavation of Staple Howe, (1963)
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1008367

http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=62281
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Re: Staple Howe by Anonymous on Saturday, 02 March 2013
Fantastic site, visited today 2/3/13 with other Archaeology students from Hull University. However what has been described as a watchtower may have been a granary. I would highly recommend a visit, it could do with more publicity though
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Re: Staple Howe by coldrum on Thursday, 27 October 2011
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From Pastscape:

"An Early Iron Age oval palisaded settlement situated on a natural
chalk knoll at Staple Howe was excavated by T C M Brewster between
1951-56 and 1958 who revealed that the palisade had been
re-aligned once and modified at least twice. Within the enclosure
the oval hut was considered to belong to the earliest phase, but in
the later phase this was abandoned and replaced by two round huts and
a centrally placed four-post structure interpreted as a watch tower.
or possibly a shrine.

The large quantity of Iron Age pottery recovered from the site
included mainly Hallstatt influenced wares and early La Tene types
. Other finds were bronze objects, including three Hallstatt 'C', razors, tweezers, tanged chisels and socketed axe fragment; iron loop
and pin; jet armlets and rings; bone and antler working pieces;
pottery loomweights and spindle-whorls; stone and flint artefacts.
Fragments of human remains representing at least two individuals were
also discovered. Carbon 14 determination on carbonised grain from
the quarried hollow gave a date of 2,400 +/-150 years. All the
finds, photographs and records are in the British Museum.
Harding considered that the plan of the internal huts at Staple
Howe were more comparable with the mid-late Bronze Age buildings of
Shearplace Hill, Dorset or Itford Hill, West Sussex
and that some of the pottery was also suggestive of
Bronze Age antecedents, including fragments reminiscent of bucket-urn
forms.

These factors together with the structural complexities of the
palisaded enclosure argued a prolonged occupation of the site; the
6th century Hallstatt bronzes and radio-carbon dating, may not,
therefore, be representative of the earliest occupation on the site."

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