Whitehawk Camp is the remains of a causewayed enclosure, on Whitehawk Hill near Brighton, England. Causewayed enclosures are a form of early Neolithic earthwork, characterized by the enclosure of an area with ditches that are interrupted by gaps, or causeways. Their purpose is not known. The site consists of four roughly concentric circular ditches; at least two ditches touch the outermost circuit from the outside, one of which is thought to date to about two thousand years after the earliest dated activity at the site. Whitehawk was first excavated in 1929 and again in the winter of 1932–1933. In 1935 the area to be crossed by a new road was excavated. In 1991, during the construction of a housing development, a ditch was discovered and excavated. In 2011, an analysis of radiocarbon dates concluded that the Neolithic part of the site was probably constructed between 3650 and 3500 BC, and probably went out of use some time between 3500 and 3400 BC.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1826:

Scottish astronomer James Dunlop discovered Centaurus A, one of the nearest radio galaxies to Earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaurus_A

1944:

Second World War: British agent Nancy Wake parachuted into Auvergne, becoming a liaison between the Special Operations Executive and the local Maquis group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Wake

1991:

A powerful tropical cyclone struck Chittagong, Bangladesh, killing at least 138,000 people and leaving up to 10 million homeless across the region. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Bangladesh_cyclone

2011:

Watched by a worldwide television audience of tens of millions, Prince William and Catherine Middleton were married at Westminster Abbey in London. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_of_Prince_William_and_Catherine_Middleton

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

curate's egg: (idiomatic) A thing which has good and bad parts, but is overall spoilt by the bad. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/curate%27s_egg

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

I really believe that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let's say 100,000 miles, their outlook would be fundamentally changed. The all-important border would be invisible, that noisy argument suddenly silenced. The tiny globe would continue to turn, serenely ignoring its subdivisions, presenting a unified facade that would cry out for unified understanding, for homogeneous treatment. The earth must become as it appears: blue and white, not capitalist or communist; blue and white, not rich or poor; blue and white, not envious or envied. I am not a naïve man. I don’t believe that a glance from 100,000 miles would cause a Prime Minister to scurry back to his parliament with a disarmament plan, but I do think it would plant a seed that ultimately could grow into such concrete action.   --Michael Collins https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Collins_%28astronaut%29