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Excavations in Whitehawk Neolithic Camp, Brighton, 1932–31

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

E. Cecil Curwen
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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.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , April 1934 , pp. 99 - 133
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1934

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page 99 note 2 The others are: Knap Hill (Wilts.), Windmill Hill (Wilts.), Robin Hood's Ball (Wilts.), Abingdon (Berks.), The Trundle (Sussex), Hembury (Devon), and Maiden Bower (Bucks.). A few others are suspected. See Antiquity, iv, 22–54.

page 99 note 3 See Antiquity, iv, 30–1, for a description of this process.

page 100 note 1 Williamson, R. P. Ross, ‘Excavations in Whitehawk Neolithic Camp, near Brighton’, Sussex Arch. Coll. lxxi, 56–96.Google Scholar

page 104 note 1 During the same period the ditches became once more receptacles for local rubbish, especially the east end of the fourth ditch, which was nearly filled with an incredible quantity of scrap-iron, including bedsteads, baths, stoves, parts of motor-cars and bicycles, etc.

page 105 note 1 The post-holes were numbered in the order in which they were discovered, and to avoid confusion have not been re-numbered according to their proper grouping.

page 114 note 1 Arch. Journ. lxxxviii (1931), 37 ff. and 67 ff.Google Scholar

page 114 note 2 The abnormal fern-leaf impression from the Isle of Man is certainly a local ‘sport’ (Antiq. Journ. xii, 153).

page 116 note 1 Arch. Journ. lxxxviii, 138; Map of Neolithic Wessex, no. 46. Report to appear shortly.

page 118 note 1 Loc. cit., p. 61.

page 118 note 1 Loc. cit., p. 87.

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page 120 note 2 e.g. on beakers from Lemseloo, Holland. Bursch, Die Becherkultur in den Niederlanden, Taf. I, 1, 2.

page 121 note 1 Antiq. Journ. xiii, 266 ff.

page 128 note 1 The Early Iron Age Inhabited Site at All Cannings Cross Farm, Wiltshire, by Mrs.Cunnington, , Devizes, , 1923 (pl. 52).Google Scholar

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