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Cissbury Ring

Near Worthing, West Sussex

Flint mines beneath the largest hillfort in Sussex.

Cissbury Ring is a huge Iron Age hillfort on the South Downs. Beneath its ramparts are about 270 Neolithic flint-mine shafts, among the first in Britain, sunk up to 12 metres deep.

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When
Neolithic and Iron Age
Where
50.8610, -0.3810
Group
Circles & monuments

Visiting

National Trust, free. Open downland with sea views.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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