| Description |
1 online resource |
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Intro -- List of figures -- List of plates -- List of tables -- Summary -- Résumé -- Zusammenfassung -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Early prehistoric landscapes -- Later prehistoric landscapes -- Early historic landscapes -- Discussion: an interpretation of the 'causewayed enclosure' -- Discussion: Chalk Hill in its prehistoric and historic context -- Appendix I. Inner Arc: segment catalogue -- Appendix II. Middle Arc: segment catalogue -- Appendix III. Outer Arc: segment catalogue -- Appendix IV. Early prehistoric pottery sherd groups -- List of references -- Lege pagina |
| Summary |
Excavations at Chalk Hill, Ramsgate in south-eastern Britain were primarily aimed at investigating the remains of a possible early Neolithic causewayed enclosure visible on aerial photographs. However, the monument could not in fact be categorised as a causewayed enclosure, but instead represented a type of early Neolithic ritual monument unique to the British Isles. The earliest significant features recorded on the site dated to the early Neolithic (roughly 3700-3600 cal BC). They took the form of three concentric arcs of intercutting pit clusters forming discrete 'segments', the fills of whic |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 06, 2019) |
| Subject |
Excavations (Archaeology) -- England -- Ramsgate
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- England -- Kent
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Bronze age.
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Neolithic period.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Bronze age
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Neolithic period
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England -- Kent
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England -- Ramsgate
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Shand, Grant, author
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Weekes, Jake, author.
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| ISBN |
9789088906091 |
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9088906092 |
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