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Hambledon Hill

Child Okeford, Dorset

A Neolithic enclosure that became a vast open cemetery, then a battlefield.

Hambledon Hill is crowned by a causewayed enclosure built in the 3650s BC. The excavator found the remains of at least 70 people in part of its ditch and estimated 350 or more in the whole circuit.

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When
c. 3650 BC
Where
50.9130, -2.2180
Group
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Visiting

National Trust land with steep paths and huge 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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