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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: WhitehawkCountry: England County: East Sussex Type: Causewayed Enclosure
Nearest Town: Brighton Nearest Village: Kemp Town
Map Ref: TQ33030477 Landranger Map Number: 198
Latitude: 50.827192N Longitude: 0.112527W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
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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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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JohnLindsay visited on 1st Mar 2012 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Found this last week, number 1 bus to another set of tower blocks, then a short walk. There is no signing that I could find so interpretaton depends on imagination. You are on Brighton race Course so you could imagine that as a ccursus.
Excavated by Curwen, Archaeology of Sussex, in the Brighton History Centre. There is a 2004 book by the Friends of Whitehawk, an organisation worth supporting perhaps.
The whole area could do with a bit of loving attention. This becomes a spiral of virtue matter.
I asked locally where it was, and the locals don't know. There is though a white hawk carved in the chalk somewhere or other hereabouts. How to do a good walk from here to Hollingbury I haven't worked out yet, that is a green and smart matter.
The group of Whitehawk, Hollingbruy Ditchling Beacon, Devil's Dyke would seem to me to be a collection of national importance which makes it a #disKUvery matter.
Andy B have visited here
Up to five of these circular ditch rings have been traced on the hill and these have been shown to have regular interruptions in their courses.
Similar arrangements are known from other sites within Britain, all dating to the late stone age. This curious and obviously non-defensive arrangement gives these sites their name: causewayed enclosures. They represent the earliest ritual circles in northern Europe and predate later stone age enclosures like Stonehenge and Avebury by up to 1000 years. They all appear to have been built around 3500 B.C.
Archaeologists have explored only a small portion of Whitehawk Camp. Within the fill of the surviving ditches the remains of four complete burials have been found alongside huge numbers of stone age flint tools, pieces of pottery and the bones of ox, cattle, pig, deer and other fragmentary human remains. These suggest the consumption of large amounts of meat as part of the activities which took place on the hill.
Read more at Brighton & Hove Council
Note: Whitehawk Camp Neolithic Causewayed Enclosure talk/tour, Wednesday 13th September, more in the comments on our page
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