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Whitesheet Hill Ancient Settlement Wiltshire

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Multi-periodSite Name: Whitesheet Hill Alternative Name: White Sheet Hill Causewayed Enclosure, Whitesheet Down, White Sheet Down
Country: England County: Wiltshire Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Mere  Nearest Village: Stourton
Map Ref: ST80163518  Landranger Map Number: 183
Latitude: 51.115562N  Longitude: 2.284818W
Condition:
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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
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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
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Whitesheet Hill
Whitesheet Hill submitted by PWhitewick : The Neolithic Camp on top of the White Sheet downs. Photo credit: Paul Whitewick on Twitter (Vote or comment on this photo)
An extensive site just to the north of the town of Mere, Wiltshire and visible from the A303. It comprises a neolithic causewayed camp, a series of Bronze Age barrows and a large Iron Age hill fort. Also present is a cold-war Royal Observer Corp bunker. Neolithic enclosures of this type are quite rare - their distinctive feature being the interruptions or causeways crossing the ditch at numerous intervals.

. - their banks and ditches are too low profile to be defensive and it is thought that these causewayed enclosures were used for a combination of occupation perhaps seasonal) and ritual practices relating to burial. Human skeletons have been found in the filling of enclosured ditches.

Access is straightforward, with footpaths making it a popular circular walk from the town of Mere. Alternately, a spacious lay-by on the A303 east of the site has bridleway access. The site is a chalkland SSSI and information boards are present.
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Contributor Bio for Maeg: Contributing since 2012. Occupation: Geology Undergraduate.

Whitesheet Hill
Whitesheet Hill submitted by Maeg : Bronze age barrow located within the neolithic causeway camp on Whitesheet down, Mere, Wiltshire. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Whitesheet Hill
Whitesheet Hill submitted by PWhitewick : An old marker stone close to the Neolithic Camp on top of the White Sheet downs. Photo credit: Paul Whitewick on Twitter (Vote or comment on this photo)

Whitesheet Hill
Whitesheet Hill submitted by Bladup : Lidar image of Whitesheet Hill Causewayed Enclosure and the tumulus right next to it, with a cross dyke to the SE Source: www.lidarfinder.com (Vote or comment on this photo)

Whitesheet Hill
Whitesheet Hill submitted by PWhitewick : The Neolithic Camp on top of the White Sheet downs. Photo credit: Paul Whitewick on Twitter (Vote or comment on this photo)

Whitesheet Hill
Whitesheet Hill submitted by PWhitewick

Whitesheet Hill
Whitesheet Hill submitted by PWhitewick

Whitesheet Hill
Whitesheet Hill submitted by Creative Commons : Tumulus, White Sheet Hill Barrows were probably the burial places of chiefs and their families and even the largest rarely contain more than a dozen graves. Copyright Trish Steel and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence.

Whitesheet Hill
Whitesheet Hill submitted by Creative Commons : Neolithic camp, White Sheet Hill Very little of the original site is visible today other than a couple of round barrows and some sections of cross dyke. Copyright Trish Steel and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence.

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