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Re: Neolithic Settlement

Jun 07, 2013, 18:27

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before so apologies in advance if I'm repeating something Tiompan has already said. Prompted by your new thread EGD, at lunchtime today I read the 'Hunter-Gardener (4000-3000bc)' chapter from Timothy Darvill's Prehistoric Gloucestershire book. It reminded me that Crickley Hill and Peak Camp were both causewayed enclosures lying on promontories of the Cotswold escarpment overlooking the Severn Vale. TD goes on to say about Crickley Hill specifically "Taken as a whole, the evidence from the second main enclosure suggests that by 3500 BC Crickley Hill was nothing less than a fortified village. Its defences were certainly tested, as a massive spread of flint leaf-shaped arrow tips along the ramparts and in the entrances suggests an attack that led to the burning and destruction of the settlement. This so-called Battle of Crickley Hill has been dated to about 3495-3415BC (Dixon et al 2011)"

(A bit closer to your original question that my first post on this thread)

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