Barkhale Camp is a causewayed enclosure, a Neolithic archaeological site on Bignor Hill, on the South Downs of West Sussex, England. English causewayed enclosures, built from around 3700 BC until at least 3500 BC, are enclosed with ditches interrupted by gaps, or causeways. They may have been settlements, meeting places, or ritual sites. Barkhale Camp was identified by John Ryle in 1929 and surveyed the following year by E. Cecil Curwen, who listed it as a possible Neolithic site. A small trench was dug in 1930 by Ryle, and more extensive excavation was undertaken by Veronica Seton-Williams between 1958 and 1961, which found a characteristically Neolithic assemblage of flints. Peter Leach conducted another excavation in 1978, examining several mounds and attempting to find the line of the ditch and bank along the southern boundary. No material suitable for radiocarbon dating was recovered, but Leach suggested that the site was constructed in the earlier Neolithic, between 4000 BC and 3300 BC.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1936:
The Canadian National Vimy Memorial (unveiling pictured), dedicated to the Canadian Expeditionary Force members killed in the First World War, was unveiled in Pas-de-Calais, France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_National_Vimy_Memorial
1953:
The Battle of the Samichon River, the last engagement of the Korean War, ended only a few hours before the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Samichon_River
1968:
After coming second to Nguyễn Văn Thiệu in a rigged presidential election, Trương Đình Dzu was jailed by a South Vietnamese military court for illicit currency transactions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%C6%B0%C6%A1ng_%C4%90%C3%ACnh_Dzu
2016:
A former employee carried out a mass stabbing at a care home for disabled people in Sagamihara, killing 19 people and wounding 26 others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagamihara_stabbings
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
soigneur: (cycle racing) A non-riding member of a racing team whose role is to provide support (such as massages, supplies, and transportation) for the cyclists. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/soigneur
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