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Fig. 3 The Causewayed Enclosure: Hachured plan of monument and location of excavated features 
survey of the hillfort (not shown here) identified 
traces of a possible underlying ditch circuit. If this 
should prove to be of Neolithic date, then 
Whitesheet Hill could be seen as another 
Hambledon Hill type complex (Mercer 1980). The 
field survey evidence is promising, but only an 
extensive excavation programme could provide 
confirmation. 
THE CAUSEWAYED 
ENCLOSURE 
Previous Excavation 
Earlier excavation through the enclosure ditch 
(Figure 3) showed that it was of irregular depth and 
profile (Piggott 1952). In one of the sections the 
ditch was 1.35m deep while, in a second, it was only 
0.65m deep. Small sherds of Windmill Hill style 
earlier Neolithic pottery were found in the primary 
silts of the deeper ditch section along with flint 
flakes and a scraper. 
Excavations in 1990 
The pipeline was routed along the centre of the 
existing, relatively deeply incised, access track as it 
was thought that all archaeology would have been 
removed from this strip both by wear and during 
laying of the track surface. Nevertheless, this 
enabled examination of the enclosure ditch in the 
south-east, and of some internal features. The track 
is the former coach road from Stourhead to 
Salisbury and has deeply cut into the enclosure 
