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    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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    lowland hills.[citation needed] Windmill Hill Museum Avebury Manor Avebury stone circle Longstones/ Beckhampton Avenue Kennet Avenue Silbury Hill West Kennet...
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    only a generation, while others, such as the type site, Windmill Hill, Avebury, and Hambledon Hill, were used for centuries, continuing until the 35th or...
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  • Shire, New South Wales Windmill Hill, Sydney, New South Wales, former name of Observatory Park, Sydney Windmill Hill, Avebury, a Neolithic causewayed...
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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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  • as Bluestonehenge Windmill Hill Museum Avebury Manor Avebury stone circle Longstones/ Beckhampton Avenue Kennet Avenue Silbury Hill West Kennet Long Barrow...
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    Silbury Hill is a prehistoric artificial chalk mound near Avebury in the English county of Wiltshire. It is part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated...
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    just west of Avebury village before turning east near Silbury Hill on its journey towards Marlborough. Higher ground includes Windmill Hill in the northwest...
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    found near the ancient stone circle of Avebury, Wiltshire, England. Charlie was excavated from Windmill Hill, Avebury in the 1920s and is currently on display...
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  • Windmill Hill, Avebury. After this, he went on to lead excavations of his own. In 1959 Grant King headed an excavation at Bury Camp, an Iron Age Hill...
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  • 1922 he excavated Cadbury Camp, and from 1926 to 1929 he was at Windmill Hill, Avebury with Alexander Keiller. In 1943 he bought the Treasurer's House...
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    than crushed by it. Children of the Stones Smith, Isobel (1965). Windmill Hill and Avebury: Excavations by Alexander Keiller, 1925-1939. Oxford: Clarendon...
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  • Ricketson begins. Alexander Keiller and Harold St George Gray excavate Windmill Hill, Avebury, in England (continues to 1929). Col. William Hawley concludes work...
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    The Sanctuary (redirect from Hill O'Ver)
    Windmill Hill Museum Avebury Manor Avebury stone circle Longstones/ Beckhampton Avenue Kennet Avenue Silbury Hill West Kennet Long Barrow The Sanctuary...
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  • Cliveden Coombe Hill Dorneywood Garden Hartwell House Hughenden Manor The King's Head Inn, Aylesbury Long Crendon Courthouse Pitstone Windmill Princes Risborough...
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  • Among the most important are the Wiltshire sites around Stonehenge and Avebury, which are designated as a World Heritage Site. Bathampton Down, Iron Age...
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    archaeology and visited Avebury with him later that year. She was one of the supervisors for the 1925–1929 Windmill Hill excavations, near Avebury, alongside her...
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  • publication in 1965 of Windmill Hill and Avebury. She also undertook excavations at several sites in the area, including Windmill Hill. Smith took a permanent...
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  • footpaths in England to the Wiltshire Avon on its way to Windmill Hill, Avebury, Silbury Hill, West Kennet Long Barrow and through this designated Heritage...
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  • that had been excavated from the Neolithic causewayed enclosure at Windmill Hill, Avebury, Wiltshire by Alexander Keiller, producing a report on his findings...
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  • England. Bab edh-Dhra discovered. Alexander Keiller purchases Windmill Hill, Avebury. Francis Llewellyn Griffith appointed first professor of Egyptology...
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    known as South Long Barrow, is a chambered long barrow near the village of Avebury in the south-western English county of Wiltshire. Probably constructed...
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    Devizes. The large Neolithic causewayed enclosure on Windmill Hill, in the southeast towards Avebury, is partly in the parish. The eastern boundary of the...
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  • mask and six chariots. First excavations of Neolithic remains at Windmill Hill, Avebury, England. Excavations at Ur by the British Museum and the University...
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    southern Britain built settlements on the hills and downland that cover Wiltshire. Stonehenge and Avebury are perhaps the most famous Neolithic sites...
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  • significant figure in British archaeology. She worked for the 1925-1929 Windmill Hill, Avebury excavations where she was the first to recognise the use of bird...
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  • 2006. Lodge Hill Camp, Caerleon, and the Hillforts of Gwent. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports Gillings, M. & Pollard, J. 2004. Avebury. London: Duckworth...
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    "Neolithic" was first coined by the archaeologist John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, in his 1865 book Pre-historic times, as illustrated by ancient remains...
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  • Silbury Hill, Britain Skara Brae, Britain Stanton Drew, Britain Stonehenge, Britain Pfahlbau Museum Unteruhldingen Germany Varna culture Windmill Hill Britain...
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    its small size. Avebury (stone circle), West Kennet Long Barrow, Savernake Forest, Crofton Pumping Station, Silbury Hill, Wilton Windmill, Alton Barnes...
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