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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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