Kingsmead Quarry
Kingsmead Quarry is a site near a quarry . It is located about 3.3 km east of Windsor Castle , about south of Horton, in Berkshire , England. It is one of the oldest mining works (formerly called Causewayed camps; now called Causewayed enclosures or interrupted-ditch enclosures) in Great Britain . The ceremonial meeting place is provided with multiple interrupted circumferential ditches.
In 2013, four early Neolithic were dated 3700 BC. House floor plans dated BC discovered. Few house floor plans of this date have been found in England, and rarely more than one. All the houses were rectangular. The largest measured about 15.0 x 7.0 meters. Two were built from oak planks in foundation trenches, while the others were built using posts.
To date, over 28 hectares of the quarry have been examined. The concentration at Kingsmead Quarry is unprecedented in early England and challenges the current understanding of how people lived more than 5,700 years ago.
literature
- Richard Cavendish: Prehistoric England . Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1983, ISBN 0-297-78315-7 , ( Discover England )