Excavations in Whitehawk Neolithic Camp, Brighton, 1932–3

Bibliographic Data

ID8890549
AuthorsE Cecil Curwen (corresponding author)
Year1934
Volume14
Issue2
Pages99-133
Publication date1934-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Antiquaries Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-5815 • E-ISSN: 1758-5309
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003581500051040
OpenAlexW2322678271
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited1

Whitehawk Camp, situated on the Brighton Race-course, is one of the eight proved neolithic camps of ‘causewayed’ type in Britain. It consists of four concentric oval rings of interrupted ditches, situated on a saddle between two slight eminences on the back of a north–south ridge on the eastern edge of the town of Brighton. The outermost ring (fourth ditch), which is deficient on the east where the hill falls very steeply into Whitehawk Bottom, encloses about 10 acres, while the inner ring encloses less than two. About half the circuit of the two inner rings, and considerable stretches of the two outer lines, have been levelled or otherwise damaged by the formation of the race-course and by allotment gardens. The general plan (pl. xii) is the result of a careful survey by the writer in 1928, when the vanished portions of the ditches were to a large extent recovered by percussion of the ground—a method which was not, however, of any avail in the allotment gardens where there was no turf, and the ‘boser’ simply sank into soft soil which damped the vibrations

Allotment · Ancient history · Archaeology · Cartography · Ditch · Excavation · Geography · Plan (archaeology · Ridge · Situated · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Historical Architecture and Urbanism · History

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