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Eston Hills Iron Age hillfort and burial mounds. The Eston Hills are northern outliers of the Cleveland Hills in the north-east of England, and consist of an east-west lying ridge separated from the North Yorkshire Moors by a small valley, which contains the medieval town of Guisborough. The ridge of the Eston Hills reaches a highest point of 242 metres at the Eston Nab, but the hills in general are between 150 metres and 200 metres above sea level. There are a variety of different habitats on the Hills ranging from moorland in the west and agricultural land in the east and south. The large number of burial mounds on the Eston Hills suggest a high population in the area at the time and also that the tree cover had been largely destroyed by about 1400BC when construction of the round barrows ceased. Eston Nab occupies the highest point along the precipitous north facing slopes of the Eston Hills, overlooking Teesmouth and the Lower Tees Valley and on a clear day offers extensive views to the Pennines and far into County Durham. The remains of a Bronze Age palisade has been excavated on the highest point of the site and traces of round houses were found within the enclosure. Today there are many readily identifiable remains of this nationally important industry on the Eston Hills including the railway inclines which linked the mines at Eston with the sorting areas at the foot of the Hills.
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Map Reference NZ 566 184
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