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Evergreen Dazed Oct 3, 2016 17:18:05

Replying to Yorkshirepedestrian

Yorkshirepedestrian wrote:

I wonder how big the iron age mound was because skipsea castle's "motte" is huge.

Hi Yorkshirepedestrian,

I asked Jim this very question this morning and he replied with dimensions of 13m high, 85m diameter, which I believe is the entire Skipsea mound.

I'm a little surprised by this, as i'd imagined an original IA mound which had been enlarged when the castle was built.

If the entire thing is IA, then...blimey.

baza Oct 6, 2016 19:48:42

Replying to Evergreen Dazed

Apparently, charcoal taken from soil from under the mound was radiocarbon dated to 800-500BC, so the mound could not be earlier. A sample from 7-8metres from the top was dated to 400-230BC, putting it in the Iron Age.