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<< Other Photo Pages >> Etton Causewayed Enclosure - Causewayed Enclosure in England in Cambridgeshire

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DigsSite Name: Etton Causewayed Enclosure
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.079 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Cambridgeshire Type: Causewayed Enclosure

Map Ref: TF135075  Landranger Map Number: 142
Latitude: 52.653361N  Longitude: 0.323585W
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JohnLindsay saw from a distance on 30th Apr 2012 I've now tried to find this in google earth, and tried to work out the bus from Peterborough which isn't frequent enough in the bad weather, but I have now found the literature, sometimes it is called Etton, which isn't a good grep string, for places including etton, of which there are a lot, pop up. pryor is an author. There is a really good collection of material in Peterborough library local history collection. Material from the site is in the British Museum in gallery 50. The puzzling thing though is the cursus, rather than the causewayed enclosure but that gets us back to the words matter.

Etton Causewayed Enclosure
Etton Causewayed Enclosure submitted by dodomad : The excavation of 1987. Photo Credit: Peter Chowne More at Peter's web site: Prehistoric Lincolnshire (Vote or comment on this photo)
This Neolithic causewayed enclosure in Cambridgeshire was excavated between 1982 and 1987 in advance of gravel extraction. It is one of at least six causewayed enclosures in the region, two of these are in Lincolnshire at Barholm and Uffington, making this the largest concentration in Britain outside Wessex and the Cotswolds. With many thanks to Peter Chowne for the photos and information.

The enclosure is less than 1km away from a smaller single causewayed circuit to the south and only 80m away from Etton Woodgate causewayed enclosure to the west. These three sites are the earliest elements in an extensive and long-lived monument complex in the Welland Valley.

The enclosure is defined by a single circuit of interrupted ditches enclosing an area 180m east-west by 140-160m north-south. Three principal entrances were noted to the north, east and west, but none could be located to the south because the southernmost part of the enclosure had been destroyed by a broad drainage channel, the Maxey Cut.

More details at Peter Chowne's web site: Prehistoric Lincolnshire.

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Etton Causewayed Enclosure
Etton Causewayed Enclosure submitted by dodomad : The excavation of 1986. Photo Credit: Peter Chowne More at Peter's web site: Prehistoric Lincolnshire (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Ritual Landscapes by Francis Pryor by Andy B on Thursday, 13 July 2017
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Francis Pryor writes: In the mid-1980s I was able to excavate an exceptionally well-preserved causewayed enclosure at Etton, in the Welland Valley on the western Fen margins, near Peterborough. The ditch was waterlogged and preserved wood, bark and other organic remains – such as the earliest piece of string (made from ax), yet found in Britain.

Close examination revealed that the ditch had been dug and then immediately filled with offerings, which were placed in discrete heaps. These offerings consisted of human skulls, or inverted pots, whose round bases closely resembled skulls. Some of the offerings were of meat bones, or dog skulls. In one case an inverted pot had been placed on a birch bark mat. In a few places querns, or corn- grinding stones had been deliberately broken, before being offered to the ground.

Taken together there seemed little doubt that the offerings were making statements about domestic or family life. Soon it came to us that the material placed in each length of ditch represented people or events in a particular family’s history.

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https://www.thelondonmagazine.org/ritual-landscapes/
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Re: Etton Causewayed Enclosure by Andy B on Thursday, 13 July 2017
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A Neolithic causewayed enclosure was excavated between 1982 and 1987 in advance of gravel extraction. The site occupied a low knoll, around which were the meandering and extinct courses of a stream or river channel. This is one of at least six causewayed enclosures in the region, two of these are in Lincolnshire at Barholm and Uffington, making this the largest concentration in Britain outside Wessex and the Cotswolds.

The enclosure is less than 1km away from a smaller single causewayed circuit to the south and only 80m away from Etton Woodgate causewayed enclosure to the west. These three sites are the earliest elements in an extensive and long-lived monument complex in the Welland Valley.

https://prehistoriclincolnshire.wordpress.com/albums/etton/
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Etton: Excavations at a Neolithic causewayed enclosure by Andy B on Thursday, 13 July 2017
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Etton: Excavations at a Neolithic causewayed enclosure near Maxey Cambridgeshire, 1982-7 Pryor, F. English Heritage (1998)

The Neolithic causewayed enclosure at Etton, cut into a Pleistocene gravel river terrace, occupied a floodplain 'island' within a relict stream meander in the Welland Valley, Maxey, Cambridgeshire. Regular flooding laid down layers of clay alluvium, mainly in Iron Age and later times, preserving a palaesol and protecting the site from modern plough damage.

The causewayed enclosure, small by British standards, comprised a single, 'squashed oval' shaped ditch. Excavations revealed c 80% of the interior and most date the construction and use to the fourth millennium cal BC, that is, early in the tradition of British causewayed enclosures. Most of the excavated features are Early Neolithic; Late Neolithic and earlier Bronze Age features were associated with the ditch of a cursus, which traversed the enclosure diagonally.

Causeways entered the enclosure on the north, which featured a substantial timber gateway, east, west, and possibly the south (which could not be examined). Through the life of the site additional features were built and aligned with care: a north-south dividing fence, aligned with the north gateway, in Phase 1 and numerous ritual pits, back-filled with pottery (often deliberately smashed), flint, and animal bones. These pits may have represented individual people and the contents allude to the person's skills, achievements, or social position.

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Re: Etton Causewayed Enclosure by Andy B on Thursday, 13 July 2017
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At Etton causewayed enclosure, while most deposits within the ditch segments might be viewed simply as dumps, a number which do stand out as unusual were identified in primary fills. In Segment 1, two intact vessels were identified in the same deposit(Fig. 14), and in Segment 7, a complete Mildenhall bowl was found neatly placed on a birch bark mat. It also seems that sheep bones were located preferentially within the butt-ends of ditches, some of which had apparently been collected up from single animals. Fifteen human bones (skulls, scapulae, and long bones, none of which were articulated) were identified at various points around the enclosure ditch.

Garrow, D. 2007. Placing pits: landscape occupation and depositional practice during the Neolithic in East Anglia p.18
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