Windmill Hill culture

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The Windmill Hill culture was a name given to a people inhabiting southern Britain during the early Neolithic.

Since the term was coined further excavation and analysis has indicated that in consisted of several discrete cultures such as the Hembury culture and the Abingdon culture.

The material record left by these people includes Causewayed camps, Long barrows, leaf-shaped arrowheads and polished stone axes.

Windmill Hill itself is a causewayed camp on Salisbury Plain.