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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Maiden Bower Causewayed EnclosureCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 0.97 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Bedfordshire Type: Causewayed Enclosure
Nearest Town: Dunstable
Map Ref: SP99662247
Latitude: 51.891883N Longitude: 0.553199W
Condition:
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| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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| -1 | Completely destroyed |
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| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
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Causewayed Enclosure in Bedfordshire
"A Neolithic causewayed enclosure masked by the later Iron Age hillfort of Maiden Bower. Features which appear to suggest the presence of a Neolithic causewayed enclosure are visible in a quarry face beneath the earthwork rampart of Maiden Bower.
The earthworks were surveyed by RCHME in 1994 as part of the Industry and Enclosure in the Neolithic Project, and at the same time all published and some unpublished sources relating to the archaeological investigation of the site were examined. Recording and salvage work was undertaken from 1878 by Worthington Smith, although the Neolithic date of his finds was not recognised until the 1930s. Even then, it was the multiple (and mostly recent) gaps in the bank of the Iron Age enclosure which attracted attention, rather than the buried features exposed by quarrying.
Ditch segments and possible pits containing Neolithic artefacts, plus traces of a bank, appear to lie beneath and outside the later enclosure, and have continued to be observed and recorded sporadically since the 1930s.
The shape and dimensions of the `grave-like excavations' described by Smith, the quantity of bone, the disarticulated remains of a human being, the antler `comb'; the heavy-rimmed, decorated Bowl pottery and the location of the earthwork all suggest that the earthworks do represent the remains of a causewayed enclosure.
Maiden Bower was included in some recent research into the dating of Early Neolithic enclosures. The radiocarbon measurements point to a period of use probably in the 38th to 33rd centuries cal BC (3800 to 3200 cal BC). The activity probably spanned up to about 205 years although a shorter rather than a longer duration is more probable. The estimated chronology for this site is unfortunately imprecise."
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