Staines Enclosure
Partly excavated in the 1960s, the Staines Enclosure (also called Yeoveney site) is a mine northwest of Staines-upon-Thames in Surrey , England . It was built near the Thames and was an island in the floodplain of the Thames , Colne and Wraysbury Rivers for most of the year . The facility is now located at junction 13 of the M25 ; the ring around London .
That around 3000 BC The round earthworks built in BC is one of around 70 of this type in England. It has a diameter of almost 200 m and an area of around 2.4 hectares, which is enclosed by a concentric interrupted mine, which for the most part was naturally filled. These facilities were initially called Causewayed camps , later as Causewayed enclosures or as interrupted-ditch enclosures (interrupted mine works).
In Staines, wooden structures and graves (five people - one man, three women and a small child) were found in the middle. There were timely activities. Inside, trenches, pits, post holes and concentrations of flint (over 40,000 pieces), remains of nearly 1,500 pots and animal bones have been found. There is a little Ebbsfleet ware in secondary contexts and later prehistoric, Roman and medieval finds. It is not possible to assign a single role to the location.
Nearby are the Henges Ashford Henge and Shepperton Henge (also called Staines Road Farm).
literature
- Rodney Castleden: The Stonehenge People. An Exploration of Life in Neolithic Britain, 4700-2000 BC Routledge, London et al. 1990, ISBN 0-415-04065-5 .
- Alasdair Whittle, Frances Healy, Alex Bayliss: Gathering time: dating the Early Neolithic enclosures of southern Britain and Ireland. Oxbow, Oxford 2011, ISBN 978-1-84217-425-8 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 35.3 " N , 0 ° 31 ′ 40.8" W.