Whitehawk

Whitehawk is a Causewayed camp and is located in an eastern suburb of Brighton in Brighton and Hove in England.

History

Whitehawk is one of the oldest studied monuments from the Neolithic period and a place of national importance in the UK. The hill was provided from approximately 3,500 BC, with circular ditches and ramparts to prepare it as a place for ritual acts. Before reaching the first farmers from the continent of the island. The agriculture goes hand in hand with an increasing number of ritual activities. First, there is the construction of Long Barrows, arise Causewayed camps, of which there are six in Sussex. They represent the earliest circle grave sites in the British Isles.

Nature

The name Causewayed camps or Causewayed enclousures received the equipment due to the many wide gaps in the grave rings to prove it it is not military power plants. The plants of this type have varied a central region of diameter between 75 m ( Windmill Hill ) and 225 m ( Barkhaie ). The average is about 100 m ( Combe Hill, Orsett, Robin Hood 's Ball, Trundle and White Sheet). The size varies because some systems have a single grave ring ( Barkhale, White Sheet), while other two ( Staines ), three ( Windmill Hill ) or even four or five rings have ( Trundle and Whitehawk ). As a consequence, the complexes 1 to 8.5 ha in size.

Finds

In Whitehawk traces of five rings were grave with regular interruptions found. Although only a small part has been excavated, were found in the trenches large quantities of potsherds, flint tools and the bones of deer, cattle and pigs. Apart from fragmentary bones of people also four graves were found with intact corpses. Including an eight-year -old child and a young woman with her newborn child. In Whitehawk also the remains of a seven year old child were found in a post hole under a provided with rough etchings plate. This finding has, as well as that of a three year old child with a broken skull in the center of Woodhenge, a foundation sacrifices. Some of the skulls found in Wessex have been broken up by force. There is a discussion among archaeologists as to whether the wounds caused the death or post-mortem carried out.