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Fig. 2. Whitesheet Hill: Location of major monuments 
| wide, on the east. Within the enclosure are very 
_ slight circular depressions which may indicate the 
positions of former structures. To the north and 
west of the enclosure are the mutilated remains of a 
field system of probable prehistoric or Romano- 
British date. At 140m north of the enclosure is a 
| damaged, partly bivallate, cross-ridge earthwork. 
Traces of ridge and furrow cultivation were noted 
between enclosures | and 2. 
The Whitesheet Hill complex is a remarkable 
prehistoric landscape survival. Although undated, 
enclosure 2 has certain traits (notably the traces of 
ditch causeways on the south-eastern arc) which 
may indicate a Neolithic origin and the detailed 
