Eston Nab

Nearest town:
Guisborough (5km ESE)
OS reference:
NZ564180
OS sheet:
93
Latitude:
54° 33' 13.91 N
Longitude:
1° 7' 40.33 W
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Sites within Eston Nab

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Images

Image of Eston Nab (Hillfort) by juamei

Image Credit: Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015.

Image credit: Open Source Environment Agency LIDAR
juamei
juamei Mar 21, 2018
Image of Eston Nab (Hillfort) by fitzcoraldo

The Hillfort bank and ditch running to the scarp edge with smoggyland and the mouth of the Tees in the distance.

fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo Dec 19, 2004
Image of Eston Nab (Hillfort) by fitzcoraldo

A Postcard
Eston Nab, Iron Age Hillfort

Image credit: Copyright Cleveland County Archaeology Section
fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo Oct 22, 2002
Image of Eston Nab (Hillfort) by fitzcoraldo

Eston Nab Late Bronze Age Settlement 700 B.C.
From a postcard
Copyright. Cleveland County Archaeological Section

Image credit: From an original painting by Andrew Hutchinson
fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo Oct 22, 2002
Image of Eston Nab (Hillfort) by fitzcoraldo

Figure 1 is an illustration of a stone taken from a tumulus on Bernaldby moor (?Barnaby) near Eston nab about two hundred yards from the encampment
“I found the outline of a noble urn (fig.2 ) standing upright, covered with a large sheild shaped stone curiously carved in the interior with some metallic instrument, representing, as I concieve, either a rude armorial bearing or a religious device”
“Figure 3 is a small urn, preserved entire in the possession of Dr. Young of Whitby, discovered a few years ago at Upleatham. It contained ashes similar to the exterior urn. Figure 4. represents a stone found near Court Green, in one of the tumuli I opened”

Image credit: Taken from Ord's History & Antiquities of Cleveland
fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo Sep 11, 2002

Articles

Eston Nab

EH working with local police to protect Eston Moor

Rhiannon
Rhiannon Oct 24, 2005

Kate Wilson, inspector of ancient monuments for English Heritage North-East has called for action to stop arsonists on Eston Moor who are destroying the heather which protects archaeological sites. Trials bikes and off-road vehicles are also damaging the earthworks.

Detective Constable Trevor Smith, of Cleveland Police, who said: “By building a closer relationship with English Heritage, we can reduce the number of incidents of damage to scheduled monuments and, where necessary, secure convictions against those responsible for the damage.”

The organisations are also concerned that fences have been ripped up and used as bonfire fuel, while earlier this year two sheep were slaughtered and one farmer’s cattle were stampeded through a neighbour’s crops.

Police recently seized an air rifle, an axe, a 6in combat knife and lock knives from rival gangs of children camping around landmark rocky outcrop Eston Nab in groups of up to 40. Over one weekend last summer, Cleveland Police rounded up 22 teenagers, with an average age of 14, of whom six were armed.

full article at
thisisthenortheast.co.uk/the_north_east/teesside/news/NEWS0.html

Eston Nab

thelonious
thelonious May 15, 2016

07/05/2016 – After missing the view on our misty trip to Erra Moor in the morning, we thought we’d try another hill in the afternoon but if anything the cloud was even worse on this one. Starting from the Cross Keys hotel on the A171 to the south, footpath heads north up the hill all the way to the top. Nice walk and the hillfort looks decent from what I could see of it!

Folklore

Eston Nab
Hillfort
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Apr 26, 2007

When Eston nabbe puts on a cloake,
And Roysberrye a cappe,
Then all the folks on Clevelands clay
Ken there will be a clappe.---Yorkshire.

on p130 of
Weather Proverbs and Sayings Not Contained in Inwards’ or Swainson’s Books
C. W. Empson
The Folk-Lore Record, Vol. 4. (1881), pp. 126-132.
Apparently also in the Denham Tracts from 1850.

Folklore

Eston Nab
Hillfort
fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo Oct 22, 2002

“In times of old, when British nymphs were known
To love no foreign fashions like their own;
When dress was monstrous, and fig-leaves the mode,
And quality put on no paint but woad”

From Garth’s poems

Folklore

Eston Nab
Hillfort
fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo Apr 23, 2002

A a, flea fly, a magpie an bacon flitch
Is t’ Yorkshireman’s coit-of arms.
An’t reason they’ve chozzen theaze things soa rich
Is becoss they hev all special charms.
A flea will bite whoivver it can-
An soa’ mi lads, will a Yorkshireman;
A fly will sup wi’ Dick, Tom and Dan-
An soa i’gow will a Yorkshireman;
A magpie can talk for a terrible span-
An soa an’ all, can a Yorkshireman;
A flitch is noa gooid whol* it’s hung, ye’ll agree-
No more is a Yorkshireman, doan’t ye see.

*till

Folk tales of Yorshire
H.L. Gee
1952

Miscellaneous

Eston Nab
Hillfort
fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo May 21, 2003

“Reference is made in Ord to a ‘hillock in Court Green’ which was destroyed by workmen. In it were found, below a paved surface, 5 urns of ‘flowerpot shape’ arranged in a circle. The present location of the finds in unknown, as is the site of the location itself. Ord further reports, though he did not see it himself, the existance of a ‘number of upright stones set in a circle’ near the mound.
The mound in question does not appear to be Court Green Howe as it is recorded as having been destroyed. Ord refers on several occassions to the whole of the Eston Hills as ‘Court Green’, so the alleged barow and stone circle may be anywhere on those hills.

Bronze Age Burial Mounds in Cleveland
G.M. Crawford

Miscellaneous

Eston Nab
Hillfort
fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo Nov 21, 2002

“The Cleveland north from these, a state that doth maintain,
Leaqning her lusty side to the great northern main,
Which if she were not here cofined thus in me,
A shire even of herself might well be said to be”

From Drayton’s Poly-Olbion (Twenty-eighth song).

Miscellaneous

Eston Nab
Hillfort
fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo Sep 5, 2002

According to J.W. Ord in his book “The History and Antiquities of Cleveland” published in 1846
A stone circle formerly stood at Court Green approx 1 mile East of Eston nab

Miscellaneous

Eston Nab
Hillfort
fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo Sep 5, 2002

Frank Elgee in his book ” Early Man in North East Yorkshire” describes his excavations of Eston nab.
Flints were discovered on the higher platform, “Good implements were scarce; chips, flakes and pieces numerous.” Further in the camp he discovered several cremations, flint scrapers, a leaf shaped arrow-heads, many quartzite hammer stones, a stone chopper, stone rubbers or polishers and numerous fragments of food vessels. he discovered a cup marked rock in the fosse and evidence of stone walling.
One disturbing feature he discovered was “minute pieces of calcined human bone suggested either cremations had been carried out on the discovered hearths or that a cannibal feast had be held”
The camp is dated to the bronze age by the food vessels.

Miscellaneous

Eston Nab
Hillfort
fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo Apr 3, 2002

“Eston Nab is one of the most attractive of Clevelands hills. It’s lofty summit overlooks a vast extent of country, and it’s antiquarian remains and historical associations invest it with much interest.”
The Watering Places of Cleveland
Samuel Gordon
Pub. 1869

Miscellaneous

Eston Nab
Hillfort
fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo Mar 10, 2002

“On the summit of this promontory , which spreads out to the forthwards into an extensive plain, there is an ancient encampment, conjectured to be of Saxon origin, consisting of a double circle of rough loose stones: the inner rampart or entrenchment being 150 paces in cirmcuference; and the whole still perfect except on the north, where a small portion of the circle is cut off by the abrutness of the rock,which on that side is nearly perpendicular. This was probably constructed by the Saxons about the year 492 when they were overthrown by the Britons at the battle of Badon-Hill”
The History of Cleveland by John Graves published 1808

Miscellaneous

Eston Nab
Hillfort
A
alirich Jan 25, 2002

This is taken from the book: “The Story Of Cleveland” by “Minnie C. Horton” . p278

“The eastern end of the Eston Hills known as Court Green was, in the opinion of Mr. O. hill, a place of importance in the mid Bronze Age, for not only were there barrows, but a stone circle is reputed to have stood there.”

I dont know much about Mr O hill except that he was a historian and the information came from the local news paper the Evening Gazette in 1959.

Sites within 20km of Eston Nab

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