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Hambledon Hill Causewayed Enclosure Dorset
Early Neolithic (3700–3400 BCE) · Early Neolithic
Dorset's flagship causewayed enclosure excavated by Mercer 1974–86, with human skull deposits and later Stepleton enclosure.
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Early Neolithic (3700–3400 BCE) · Early Neolithic
Dorset's flagship causewayed enclosure excavated by Mercer 1974–86, with human skull deposits and later Stepleton enclosure.
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Late Neolithic 2400–2300 BCE · Late Neolithic Britons (Grooved Ware)
Europe's tallest prehistoric mound – 39-m artificial hill with unknown purpose.
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Neolithic to Iron Age · Devon Neolithic
Hembury Hillfort Devon at Devon, United Kingdom is a Neolithic to Iron Age earthwork of the Devon Neolithic tradition, built c. 4000 BCE for causewayed enclosure + iron age hillfort.
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Iron Age · British Iron Age
Danebury Hillfort Hampshire at Hampshire, United Kingdom is a Iron Age earthwork of the British Iron Age tradition, built c. 550 BCE for type-site hillfort dense occupation.
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Iron Age · Durotriges
Maiden Castle Hillfort Dorset at Dorset, United Kingdom is a Iron Age earthwork of the Durotriges tradition, built c. 600 BCE for 47 acre bivallate hillfort.
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Bronze Age to Medieval · Votadini
Traprain Law Hillfort at East Lothian, United Kingdom is a Bronze Age to Medieval earthwork of the Votadini tradition, built c. 1000 BCE for phonolite plug hillfort with roman hoard.
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Iron Age · British Iron Age
Cadbury Castle Somerset Camelot at Somerset, United Kingdom is a Iron Age earthwork of the British Iron Age tradition, built c. 1000 BCE for camelot-identified hillfort 4 ramparts.
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Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Earthworks of Northfield Bal in Somerset, South West England, United Kingdom is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) earthwork attributed to Classical culture.
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Iron Age (600 BCE–43 CE) · Durotriges
Dorset's type-site excavated by Wheeler 1934–37, war cemetery 52 burials from Vespasian's 43 CE siege, Neolithic causewayed enclosure underlying.
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Neolithic (3650–3000 BCE) · Early Neolithic / Peterborough
Avebury's northern causewayed camp excavated by Keiller 1925–29, 3650 BCE basal layer with Ebbsfleet ceramics.