1st September 2011, 08:43 AM
Yep.
Its a long time since I've studied them , but from what I remember, the class of 'causewayed enclosures' covers several different types of 'site' with similar recognisable properties including rings of pits/ big ring ditches interrupted by causeways. Several have been excavated across the country, down south mainly I think. Interpretations vary from site to site with some interpretated as being mainly defensive and some as ritual. Reading the individual excavation reports would give you a better idea, as long as you bring your critical brain. Also, not read all of these, but I imagine that they'd have good summaries of present thought and you could trawl the bibliographies for references for the site reports.
Causewayed enclosures. Mercer, R. J. (Roger James), Princes Risborough : Shire, 1990.
The creation of monuments : neolithic causewayed enclosures in the British Isles Alastair Oswald, Oswald, Alastair. Swindon : English Heritage, 2001.
Enclosures in Neolithic Europe : essays on causewayed and non-caueswayed sites edited by Gillian Varndell and Peter Topping. Oxford : Oxbow, c2002.
Its a long time since I've studied them , but from what I remember, the class of 'causewayed enclosures' covers several different types of 'site' with similar recognisable properties including rings of pits/ big ring ditches interrupted by causeways. Several have been excavated across the country, down south mainly I think. Interpretations vary from site to site with some interpretated as being mainly defensive and some as ritual. Reading the individual excavation reports would give you a better idea, as long as you bring your critical brain. Also, not read all of these, but I imagine that they'd have good summaries of present thought and you could trawl the bibliographies for references for the site reports.
Causewayed enclosures. Mercer, R. J. (Roger James), Princes Risborough : Shire, 1990.
The creation of monuments : neolithic causewayed enclosures in the British Isles Alastair Oswald, Oswald, Alastair. Swindon : English Heritage, 2001.
Enclosures in Neolithic Europe : essays on causewayed and non-caueswayed sites edited by Gillian Varndell and Peter Topping. Oxford : Oxbow, c2002.