Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Knap Hill/archive1
Please check back at the end of the month for the May blurbs. - Dank (push to talk) 15:27, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
Knap Hill lies on the northern rim of the Vale of Pewsey, in northern Wiltshire, England, about a mile (1.6 km) north of the village of Alton Priors. At the top of the hill is a causewayed enclosure, a form of Neolithic earthwork that appeared in England from about 3700 BC onwards. These earthworks are characterised by the enclosure of an area with ditches that are interrupted by gaps, or causeways. It is not known what they were used for; they may have been settlements, or meeting places, or ritual sites of some kind. Knap Hill was the first causewayed enclosure to be excavated and identified. In 1908 and 1909 Benjamin and Maud Cunnington spent two summers investigating the site, and Maud Cunnington published two reports of their work, noting that there were several gaps in the ditch and bank surrounding the enclosure. The site has been scheduled as an ancient monument. About a thousand causewayed enclosures have now been found in Europe, including around seventy in Britain. (Full article...)
Just a suggested blurb ... thoughts and edits are welcome. - Dank (push to talk) 23:14, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
- Just one tweak: I've made it "Maud Cunnington" at the second mention, rather than just "Maud". I can't remember where in MoS it is, but there's an argument that it is belittling to refer to women only by their first names, and I think we should avoid it in blurbs where possible. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 23:21, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks Mike. - Dank (push to talk) 23:24, 28 May 2020 (UTC)