An aerial thought of the site of the Neolithic causewayed enclosure.
Photograph: Wessex Archaeology
A neolithic monument has been discovered less than ii miles from Windsor Castle. Dating from 5,500 years ago, it is ane of the earliest known examples of monument-building inward Britain.
A ceremonial gathering house known every bit a causewayed enclosure has been revealed amongst the uncovering of a serial of encircling ditches, artificial boundaries amongst gap entrances, at a vast site inward Berkshire.
Archaeologists accept institute extensive quantities of brute bones besides every bit decorated pottery sherds, in addition to bear witness that pots were deliberately smashed, possibly every bit festivities came to a boisterous close. Other finds include finely worked, leaf-shaped flintstone arrowheads, serrated blades, rock axes in addition to grinding stones.
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