Archaeology Notes
Event ID 698239
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NR89NW 18 8331 9627.
(NR 8331 9628) Circle (NR) (Cists found)
OS 6" map, (1924)
This feature, excavated in 1864 by Greenwell, consists of a low cairn 72' in diameter with two cists. One, near the centre, measures 8' x 3' x 2'; no finds were made in it. The other, 10' NNE of centre, measures 3' x 1'4" x 1'10". It contained a beaker, now in the British Museum, and teeth from three bodies.
The cairn is surrounded by the ditch of a Class 2 henge, 115' in diameter, 7' - 12' wide with causeways at E and W. The external bank is 138' in diameter, 24' - 28' wide.
M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964; W Greenwell 1868; H A W Burl 1969; J H Craw 1931.
At this site are the remains of a Class 2 henge which consist of a ditch up to 6.0m wide and 0.5m deep enclosing an area 20.0m in diameter. The mutilated causeways are in the N and S. There is a stony outer bank, most obvious on the E side.
Only the larger cist is visible in the interior which, although stony, cannot be confirmed as a cairn because field clearance has been deposited over the whole site.
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (J P) 21 June 1973.
NR 8332 9627. An earthwork generally as described by the previous authorities. The inner top edge of the bank has a 'kerb' of intermittent, earthfast stones; four of these are particularly large being up to 0.6m by 0.4m.
The interior is completely covered by a cairn, composed of small stone, which rises to a height of 0.6m above the surrounding ground level. In its top, are two cists which are off-centre. The larger of these is complete with capstone whilst the smaller is open. The earthwork is turf-covered and has clear evidence of disturbance, with modern stone clearance infilling parts of the ditch.
It is almost certainly a Class 2 henge with, in the interior, a large cairn which has two apparently secondary cists.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (T R G) 19 April 1977.