South England East Causewayed Enclosures

 Barkdale Camp Burnham Causewayed Enclosure Combe Hill The Trundle Whitehawk Camp

South England East Causewayed Enclosures is in Prehistoric South-East England, Causewayed Enclosure.

Europe, British Isles, South-East England, West Sussex, Bignor, Barkdale Camp [Map]

Around 3600BC. Barkdale Camp [Map] is a Causewayed Enclosure on the South Downs in West Sussex. In 1929, John Ryle noticed the earthworks at the site, and in 1930 E. Cecil Curwen and G.P. Burstow surveyed the site, and identified an interrupted ditch in the northern part of the site. In 1958 Veronica Seton-Williams began a series of excavations at Barkhale Camp; she dug for four seasons. Seton-Williams excavated six of the thirteen ditch segments that Curwen had identified

Europe, British Isles, South-East England, Kent, Wouldham, Burnham Causewayed Enclosure [Map]

Burnham Causewayed Enclosure [Map] was a causewayed enclosure now more or less disappeared.

Europe, British Isles, South-East England, East Sussex, Polegate, Combe Hill [Map]

Around 3600BC. Combe Hill [Map] is a causewayed enclosure on the northern edge of the South Downs in Sussex. The enclosure has been excavated twice: in 1949, by Reginald Musson, and in 1962, by Veronica Seton-Williams. Musson found a large quantity of Ebbsfleet Ware pottery in one of the ditches.

Europe, British Isles, South-East England, West Sussex, Chichester, The Trundle [Map]

The Trundle is also in Iron Age Hill Forts Sussex.

Around 3600BC. The The Trundle [Map] is a causewayed enclosure that became an Iron Age Hill Fort in West Sussex. It rises above the neighbouring hills and so is clearly visible from all sides having an elevation of 206m. The causewayed enclosure consists of at least four circular or partly circular ditches enclosing 9300m2.

Europe, British Isles, South-East England, East Sussex, Brighton, Whitehawk Camp [Map]

Around 3600BC. Whitehawk Camp [Map] is a causewayed enclosure near Brighton in Sussex. In 1929 R. P. Ross Williamson and E. Cecil Curwen undertook atn excavation at Whitehawk Camp. In 1930, the archaeologist E. Cecil Curwen identified sixteen sites that were definitely or probably Neolithic causewayed enclosures.

The Iron-Age Hill Fort consists of a well-defined bank and ditch, with a smaller outer bank, in an irregular nine-sided polygon. There are two gaps, at the east-northeast and west-southwest edges, indicating entrances. The depth of the ditch and the height of the bank vary, with the highest point reaching 5.5 m (6.0 yd) above the bottom of the ditch.