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Windmill Hill

Near Avebury, Wiltshire

The largest causewayed enclosure in Britain, where the first farmers gathered.

Windmill Hill is ringed by three ditches, broken by gaps, with the outer one 365 metres across. It was built around 3700 BC, long before Avebury's stones.

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When
c. 3700 BC
Where
51.4400, -1.8750
Group
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Visiting

Footpaths from Avebury cross the hill.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
From the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

About two kilometres north-west of Avebury, a hill is ringed by three concentric ditches. This is Windmill Hill.

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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