Hambledon Hill

A Neolithic causewayed camp and Iron Age hillfort in Dorset, England. The causewayed camp of the 3rd millennium BC had pits of pottery, flint tools, and bone. Human skulls had been placed at regular intervals along the ditch bottom. The disarticulated human remains of the camp may reveal exposure of corpses. A long barrow was nearby on the same hilltop. Much later, in the first millennium BC, there was an impressive Iron Age hillfort on another ridge of this three-spurred hill.

A causewayed camp of the early 3rd millennium be in Dorset, southern England. Extensive excavations have revealed pits containing collections of pottery, flint tools and bone. Human skulls had been placed at regular intervals along the ditch bottom. These finds and the discovery of fragmented remains of many bodies in both the ditch and inside the enclosure have led the excavator, Roger Mercer, to suggest that the site may have been used for exposing the dead, prior to burial in a long barrow, whether megalithic or non-megalithic. Another enclosure on the nearby Steepleton Spur may have been a settlement, also of the Neolithic period. Much later there was an Iron Age hillfort on another ridge of this three-spurred hill.