Life on Whitehawk Hill in the Neolithic

Around 5,500 years ago, people dug rings of ditches on Whitehawk Hill, above what is now Brighton. Archaeologists call the monument Whitehawk Camp. Breaks in the ditches let people pass through, which is why it is known as a causewayed enclosure.

This episode of Echoes of Brighton’s Past considers how people lived on Whitehawk Hill in the Neolithic. The surviving earthworks and finds give archaeologists clues about how people gathered and what they did there.

Read about the archaeology of Whitehawk Camp at UCL.

Listen to the episode on Spotify.