Chalk grassland on Brighton's eastern edge holding one of Britain's oldest monuments, a Neolithic causewayed camp, with wide views over the city
On the down between Brighton’s racecourse and the sea lies one of the oldest built things in Britain, Whitehawk Camp, a Neolithic causewayed enclosure dug about five and a half thousand years ago. A causewayed enclosure is a set of concentric ditches broken by frequent gaps, or causeways, and archaeologists still argue about what these earliest ones were for. Not much shows on the ground now, but the chalk grassland is a local nature reserve full of wild flowers, and from the top the view opens over the city and out to the South Downs. Footpaths cross the open slopes up from Brighton Kemptown below. Hollingbury Hillfort, a later Iron Age fort, sits on the next hill north.
