Whitehawk Camp - Neolithic Causewayed Enclosure or Stone Age Circle?

Meeting Point
Corner of Manor Hill and Queensway, Brighton & Hove, East Sussex
Map link

Description
Fed up with Regency architecture? Come along and explore the first visible enclosing of a large communal space in our region. Situated in a commanding position above East Brighton, close to the Race Course, lays one of Britain's earliest Stone Age monuments. The hill top here was chosen some 5,650 years ago as the site for a large ceremonial enclosure, an area for undertaking feasting, burials and communing. Dating to c. 3,650 B.C. the monument represents one of the earliest ritual circles in northern Europe and predates later Neolithic enclosures like Stonehenge and Avebury by around 500 years. A c. 60 minute guided tour of this unique part of Brighton & Hove's heritage will be given by Jon Sygrave from UCL's Institute of Archaeology. The tour will provide an introduction to the early British Neolithic in Sussex and the layout and significance of the Whitehawk enclosure

Times

• Thursday 10 September: 1800

Booking Details
Pre-booking: Required
Call: 01273 206306
Go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/whitehawk-camp-neolithic-causewayed-enclosure-or-stone-age-circle-tickets-17860603546
Booking opens: 17 August 2015 12:00
Booking closes: 9 September 2015 17:00
 

Directions
Meet: Corner of Manor Hill and Queensway (the roundabout at this point also connecting with Firle Road and Freshfield Road), Brighton Map link.

Organised by
Institute of Archaeology (UCL) and The Regency Town House
 
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