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Windmill Hill is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure in the English county of Wiltshire, part of the Avebury World Heritage Site, about 1 mile (2 km) northwest of Avebury. Enclosing an area of 21 acres (8.5 ha), it is the largest known causewayed enclosure in Britain. [ 1 ]
The Windmill Hill culture was a name given to a people inhabiting southern Britain, in particular in the Salisbury Plain area close to Stonehenge, c. 3000 BC. [1] They were an agrarian Neolithic people; their name comes from Windmill Hill , a causewayed enclosure near Avebury . [ 2 ]
The hill where the Garrison Windmill was located became known as Windmill Hill. In 1673, on this site, the deputy of Governor Francis Lovelace reviewed New York's military companies just before the Dutch briefly retook control during 1673-74. Pieter Jansen Messier acquired the mill in 1682. The mill was severely damaged by a lightning strike in ...
Windmill Hill culture, named after the Avebury site but now considered as several separate archaeological cultures Windmill Hill, Bristol , a predominantly residential area within Bedminster, Bristol Windmill Hill, Buckinghamshire , an archive and office complex near Waddesdon Manor
She asked Smith to write up his excavations from the 1920s and 1930s, a huge task that was eventually completed with the publication in 1965 of Windmill Hill and Avebury. She also undertook excavations at several sites in the area, including Windmill Hill. [3]
The John Doe, nicknamed “The Pinnacle Man,” has been identified as Nicolas Paul Grubb of Fort Washington, Penn., the Berks County Coroner’s Office said in a news release obtained by PEOPLE ...
The Windmill Hill Historic District is a historic district encompassing a large rural landscape in Jamestown, Rhode Island. It is bounded on the north by Eldred Avenue, on the east by East Shore Road, on the south by Great Creek, and on the west by Narragansett Bay .
Chapel Hill police are investigating after a man and woman were found shot on Homestead Road on Monday afternoon. The Chapel Hill Police Department responded at 2:20 p.m. to a report of a shooting ...