Reconstruction painting showing the clearance of woodland and digging of segmented ditches during the early phase of construction at what would later become Maiden Castle Hillfort. This early phase began in the early Neolithic period.

Date:: circa 2000 - circa 2004

Location:: Maiden Castle, Winterborne St. Martin, Dorset

Reference:: IC064/003

Type:: Reconstruction Artwork

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The impressive hillfort at Maiden Castle was not the first monument to occupy the site, in fact the hilltop had been occupied since the early Neolithic period over 6000 years ago. This first phase of construction created an oval causewayed enclosure of two segmented ditches atop the eastern plateau, one of the earliest forms of monument in Britain.

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This is part of the Volume: IC064 Maiden Castle, Dorset; within the Series: EHC01/146 English Heritage Reconstruction And Artwork Collection; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(Eh):Archive

Reconstruction painting showing the clearance of woodland and digging of segmented ditches during the early phase of construction at what would later become Maiden Castle Hillfort. This early phase began in the early Neolithic period.

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