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The flint mines on Windover Hill are a Neolithic monument located in Sussex near The Long Man of Wilmington. These mines represent evidence of systematic flint extraction during the Neolithic period, when flint was a crucial raw material for tool manufacture and trade across prehistoric Britain. The site consists of shallow mine workings where Neolithic peoples exploited seams of high-quality flint, extracting the stone through surface and shallow subsurface excavation. The mines demonstrate the organised nature of Neolithic resource exploitation and the importance of flint procurement to prehistoric communities in southern England.
Flint mines on Windover Hill, 140m WSW of The Long Man is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014631. View the official record →
The flint mines on Windover Hill are a Neolithic monument located in Sussex near The Long Man of Wilmington. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014631.
Flint mines on Windover Hill, 140m WSW of The Long Man is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1014631.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Medieval farmstead and regular aggregate field system, 805m west of Crapham Barn (6.5 km), Pair of bowl barrows on Baily's Hill (6.6 km), Two bowl barrows south of Pashley (6.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Flint mines on Windover Hill, 140m WSW of The Long Man's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Flint mines on Windover Hill, 140m WSW of The Long Man stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.