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<< Text Pages >> Chalk Hill Causewayed Enclosure - Causewayed Enclosure in England in Kent

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Chalk Hill Causewayed Enclosure
Country: England County: Kent Type: Causewayed Enclosure
Nearest Town: Ramsgate
Map Ref: TR36156457
Latitude: 51.331158N  Longitude: 1.388550E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
1 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Causewayed Enclosure in Kent

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Cropmarks of a curved length of interrupted ditch forming part of a Neolithic causewayed enclosure. The cropmarks were transcribed and analysed by RCHME in 1996 as part of the Industry and Enclosure in the Neolithic Project. The site lies immediately north of Chalk Hill and north west of the Chilton Farm buildings. It is situated on a gentle south-south-east facing slope. 450 metres to the south are the vertical chalk cliffs, circa 15 metres high. Excavations in 1997-8 confirmed identification of the cropmarks as representing a causewayed enclosure, and also revealed the presence of at least two additional ditch circuits not visible as cropmarks. The outer ditch measures circa 150 metres in diameter, and is considerably wider and deeper than the inner pair, which were described as "fairly insubstantial". All three produced artefactual evidence confirming an Early Neolithic date.

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TR3664 : Telecommunication Masts by N Chadwick
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TR3664 : Mobile Phone mast of Chalk Hill by David Anstiss
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TR3664 : Chalk Hill Bridge by David Anstiss
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TR3664 : The Ramsgate harbour approach road by david mills
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Chalk Hill - Neolithic and Bronze Age discoveries at Ramsgate, Kent by Andy B on Monday, 25 November 2019
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Chalk Hill - Neolithic and Bronze Age discoveries at Ramsgate, Kent
Peter Clark, Grant Shand & Jake Weekes | 2019

Excavations at Chalk Hill, Ramsgate in south-eastern Britain were primarily aimed at investigating the remains of a possible early Neolithic causewayed enclosure visible on aerial photographs. However, the monument could not in fact be categorised as a causewayed enclosure, but instead represented a type of early Neolithic ritual monument unique to the British Isles.

The earliest significant features recorded on the site dated to the early Neolithic (roughly 3700–3600 cal BC). They took the form of three concentric arcs of intercutting pit clusters forming discrete ‘segments’, the fills of which produced rich assemblages of pottery, flintwork, animal bone and other material. Much of this material appeared to have been deliberately placed in the pits rather than representing casual disposal of refuse. There are indications that material placed in different pits at different times may have derived from the same source, a ‘midden’ or some such which was not located during the excavations. The pit clusters appeared to have resulted from repeated pit-digging in the same location over an extended period of time. The site therefore contributes a more nuanced understanding of the heterogeneity of monumental architecture in the early Neolithic of the British Isles.

This report is therefore critical for understanding the early Neolithisation of southern Britain, the relations between Neolithic incomers and indigenous Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, the potential creolisation of different cultural groups and cross-Channel relations in the early 4th Millennium BC.

The site probably went out of use in around 3600 cal BC, and subsequent use of the landscape in the Bronze Age and later periods is evocative of the perception of ‘special places’ in the landscape long after they were abandoned.

With contributions by Enid Allison, Alex Bayliss, Robin Bendrey, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Kate Clark, Alex Gibson, Chris Green, Louise Harrison, Frances Healy, Linda Hurcombe, Rob Ixer, Jacqueline McKinley, Barbara McNee, Ruth Pelling, Nicola Powell, Louise Rayner, Paula Reimer, Johannes van der Plicht, Alasdair Whittle and Tania Wilson

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Re: Chalk Hill Causewayed Enclosure by frogcottage42 on Wednesday, 17 February 2010
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For anyone interested, what appears to be a small causewayed enclosure has been partially excavated a few hundred metres to the east of this site.
It consists of a curving ditch possibly 30m in diameter with a clear entrance to the north about 2m wide. This was entirely hidden beneath CourtStairs Lodge Nursery school and was examined during demolition works.
The ditch fill was jammed with neolithic flint tools and worked remnants and large quantities of animal bones including some near complete articulated skeletons. Any associated bank is long gone and the presence of numerous artefacts at the present ground level suggest this enclosure was once much more substantial. I possess photos of this site and the local archaeological trust have carried out a detailed evaluation.
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