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It was therefore only proper that a certain proportion of the finished products should be returned to the river as a thanks offering for the use of the water or gift of the flint. It was a bargain between men and the spirits of the water, whether gods or dead ancestors. Every activity undertaken by prehistoric people – hunting, flint knapping, farming, mining and everything else – was a joint venture between man and the spirits. These invisible entities could make or mar any enterprise. We still have vague memories of co-operative ventures of this kind between men and the gods.
We are able at least to make intelligent guesses about henges and causewayed enclosures. About another part of the ritual landscape of West London, the Stanwell cursus, even guesswork is tricky and uncertain. Cursuses are only known in Britain and Ireland. They typically consist of two parallel ditches, the material from which is banked up between the ditches. The usual form is that this creates two ridges with a clear path between them. We have absolutely no idea what the purpose of these structures might have been.
Although none have yet been excavated, it would be surprising if similar enclosures were not a part of the landscape in central London; there was no shortage of gravel spits and islets in central London. The enclosure at Yeoveny Lodge was still in use during the Roman period. A polygonal structure was found during the investigations of the site and it seems that this spot continued to be of religious importance up to and including the Saxon invasions which followed the fall of the Roman Empire.