What is recorded here

Mortons and promontory forts still stand where cliff edges drop into Atlantic water. People may have built banks across the narrow place, used the sea as one wall and watched weather come from the southwest. Much of that life has vanished, but the L-shaped headland and thin earthen lines remain visible enough to argue that the coast was never empty.

Promontory fort described in 2003 as follows; ‘A flat L-shaped headland, facing southwest into the Atlantic measuring 80m wide at the broadest point and totalling 110m long shows evidence of having been enclosed along the landward side of a series of three low earthen banks, one 2.3m wide and with a shallow external fosse. A second bank, now incorporated into a field boundary runs 10m inland from edge to edge, with faint traces of a rick cut fosse visible in the western cliff. A faint shallow dip and low rise 10m north of the main feature may be the remains of a third. Several cattle gaps through the enclosing elements are all that can be seen of an entrance feature. A vague circular depression in the interior close to the southern cliff seen from the air may be the remains of a hut but could not be found on the ground. The surrounding cliffs are sheer and slopping grassy edge suggests the headland was once larger' (Casey 2003, 20, no. B).

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