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In this lesson we looked at the idea of SITE.

Site is the land that a settlement is built on. It is a description of the physical landscape of a settlement. For example, your street may be built on a slope or close by a river. Your town may lie in a valley or beside the sea.

Here are some of the most common features of site

• near a river
• beside a spring (source of river)
• near dry land
• on a slope
• on high ground
• on low ground
• on flat ground
• near woods
• on fertile soil
• at a crossing point on a river

What kind of site would prehistoric people have chosen?

Homework Task:

1. Worksheet: Complete the exercise on the worksheets about a prehistoric site in South East England.

Interactive:  Click here to try the exercise on site in BiteSize Revision