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Windmill Hill The name of the site of a causeway camp near Avebury, Wilts., type site of the neolithic age in Britain, used to designate the type of culture, pottery, etc., characteristic of that period.
1930E. C. Curwen in Antiquity IV. 26 The varieties of pottery..have been collectively described as the Windmill Hill type. 1947J. & C. Hawkes Prehist. Britain ii. 40 The mausoleum most fashionable among the Windmill Hill people was the long barrow. 1954S. Piggott Neolithic Cultures ii. 18 The Windmill Hill culture was basically that of cattle-breeders. 1963Field Archaeol. (Ordnance Survey) (ed. 4) 33 While ‘Windmill Hill’ pottery predominates, most other forms of Neolithic pottery are represented. 1971World Archaeol. III. 239 The Q1 skeleton strongly suggested that a member of the Windmill Hill Culture was cut to pieces by this type of large metal weapon. 1983P. A. Crowl Intell. Traveller's Guide to Historic Britain i. 15 Those large mounds of earth thrown up by people of the Windmill Hill culture to cover their dead. |