My brother texted me with this story this morning and I've just headed here to see that I've been beaten to it!
I was so excited to read it, but a little disappointed that the mound is only iron age--I really hoped it'd be older and related to the gypsy race monuments of Rudston and Willy Howe...that would have been staggeringly important.

But this is still really cool news for a Monday morning.
I wonder how big the iron age mound was because skipsea castle's "motte" is huge.
I want to get back there now and check it out.
Funny, I was there just a couple of weeks ago, musing on its ancient vibes.
Good old mister Ainsworth was correct!
He usually was on time team though. Before the earth had even been broken he'd often solved the site's mysteries by just walking and thinking.
I'm definitely prone to wild speculation about humps and bumps.
The council estate where I live is part of a vast druidic ritual landscape....