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    A causewayed enclosure is a type of large prehistoric earthwork common to the early Neolithic in Europe. It is an enclosure marked out by ditches and...
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    Henge (redirect from Henge enclosure)
    comparisons with the henge monuments and causewayed enclosures of the British Isles." Although still with a multiple-causewayed ditch and entrances at cardinal...
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  • A causewayed enclosure was found at Abingdon in Oxfordshire in 1926. Causewayed enclosures are a form of early Neolithic earthwork found in northwestern...
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  • Combe Hill, East Sussex (category Causewayed enclosures)
    Combe Hill is a causewayed enclosure, near Eastbourne in East Sussex, on the northern edge of the South Downs. It consists of an inner circuit of ditches...
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  • Magheraboy causewayed enclosure is an early Neolithic enclosure located near Sligo town in northwest Ireland. Built during the Early Neolithic period "monumental...
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    Knap Hill (category Causewayed enclosures)
    north of the village of Alton Priors. At the top of the hill is a causewayed enclosure, a form of Neolithic earthwork that was constructed in England from...
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    Australia (Completed in 1867) Canso Causeway from Cape Breton Island Causey Arch, County Durham, England Causewayed enclosure Kūlgrinda Sacbe Oxford English...
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    Other types of enclosures leave less permanent records and may only be identified during excavation. Banjo enclosures Causewayed enclosures Enclosed cremation...
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  • Robin Hood's Ball (category Causewayed enclosures)
    Robin Hood’s Ball is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, approximately 5 miles (8 km) northwest of the town of Amesbury...
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    Windmill Hill, Avebury (category Causewayed enclosures)
    Windmill Hill is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure in the English county of Wiltshire, part of the Avebury World Heritage Site, about 1 mile (2 km) northwest...
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    Flagstones is a late Neolithic interrupted ditch enclosure (similar to a causewayed enclosure) on the outskirts of Dorchester, Dorset, England. It derives...
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  • Offham Hill (category Causewayed enclosures)
    Offham Hill is a causewayed enclosure near Lewes, East Sussex, England. Causewayed enclosures were built in England from shortly before 3700 BC until about...
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    circular stone walls built around the tor. They are comparable to the causewayed enclosures found elsewhere in the British Isles and many are of similar Neolithic...
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    4,000 years later, during the earlier Neolithic, people built a causewayed enclosure at Robin Hood's Ball, and long barrow tombs in the surrounding landscape...
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  • Barkhale Camp (category Causewayed enclosures)
    a Neolithic causewayed enclosure, an archaeological site on Bignor Hill, on the South Downs in West Sussex, England. Causewayed enclosures were built in...
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  • Age hill fort Hambledon Hill, Iron Age hill fort and Neolithic causewayed enclosures. Hod Hill, Iron Age hill fort. Kenwalch's Castle, Iron Age hill...
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  • agrarian Neolithic people; their name comes from Windmill Hill, a causewayed enclosure near Avebury. Together with another Neolithic tribe from East Anglia...
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    area is on Windmill Hill in the north-west of the parish, where a causewayed enclosure with three concentric ditches was built c.3700 BC on an earlier field...
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    The Trundle (category Causewayed enclosures)
    built on the site of a causewayed enclosure, a form of early Neolithic earthwork found in northwestern Europe. Causewayed enclosures were built in England...
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    Hembury (category Causewayed enclosures)
    Hembury is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure and Iron Age hillfort near Honiton in Devon. Its history stretches from the late fifth and early fourth millennia...
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    henge and associated long barrows, stone circles, avenues, and a causewayed enclosure. These monument types are not exclusive to the Avebury area. For...
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    Archaeological features Broch Burnt mound fulacht fiadh Causewayed enclosure Tor enclosure Circular enclosure Goseck Cursus Henge Thornborough Megalithic architectural...
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    4600 BC. These structures (and their later counterparts such as causewayed enclosures, burial mounds, and henge) required considerable time and labour...
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    City Council. At the top of the hill is Whitehawk Camp, a Neolithic causewayed enclosure which is a Scheduled Monument. This is species-rich chalk grassland...
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    activity (4000–3350 BC) with the discovery of a previously unknown causewayed enclosure. Datchet is first mentioned between 990 and 994, when Æthelred made...
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    2002 revealed an early Neolithic causewayed enclosure. Built around 4000 B.C., the Magheraboy causewayed enclosure is located on high ground overlooking...
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    area is from the Paleolithic and, during the Neolithic, there was a causewayed enclosure on Staines Moor. The first bridge across the Thames at Staines is...
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    Maiden Castle, Dorset (category Causewayed enclosures)
    archaeological evidence of human activity on the site consists of a Neolithic causewayed enclosure and bank barrow. In about 1800 BC, during the Bronze Age, the site...
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    Archaeological features Broch Burnt mound fulacht fiadh Causewayed enclosure Tor enclosure Circular enclosure Goseck Cursus Henge Thornborough Megalithic architectural...
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    the form of long barrows used for communal burial and the first causewayed enclosures, sites which have parallels on the continent. The former may be...
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