Steel End (Holy Island)

This small site below the fort contains a large midden. The remains include animal bones, charcoal and flints. Scientists have also found the remains of rye, a kind of grain. The lowest levels of the midden are probably of late prehistoric date, though upper layers may be of Anglo-Saxon date. This is a Scheduled Monument protected by law.

Reference number:

N5361

Historical period:

Later Prehistoric (4000BC to 43AD)
UNCERTAIN

Legal status:

Conservation area

Event(s):

FIELD SURVEY, The Heugh, Holy Island (NU 1295 4165). Archaeological Recording of Eroded Ground Surface 1995

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