Editing Causewayed enclosure (section)

==Construction==
Causewayed enclosures are often located on hilltop sites, encircled by one to four concentric [[ditch]]es with an internal [[Bank (geography)|bank.]]<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv22fqbzs |title=Marking Place: New perspectives on early Neolithic enclosures |date=2022 |publisher=Oxbow Books |isbn=978-1-78925-709-0 |volume=14 |doi=10.2307/j.ctv22fqbzs|jstor=j.ctv22fqbzs |s2cid=243830065 }}</ref>  Enclosures located in lowland areas are generally larger than hilltop ones.  Crossing the ditches at intervals are [[causeway]]s which give the monuments their names.  It appears that the ditches were excavated in sections, leaving the wide causeways intact in between.  They should not be confused with segmented, or [[causewayed ring ditch]]es, which are smaller and are thought to relate only to funerary activity, or with [[hillfort]]s, which appeared later and had a definite defensive function. With regard to defensive functionality, however, evidence of timber [[palisade]]s has been found at some sites such as [[Hambledon Hill]].