Archaeology Notes

Event ID 716108

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT45SE 10 4869 5227.

(NT 4869 5227) Henge (NR) (site of)

OS 6" map (1970)

This Class I henge was excavated by Atkinson in 1950. He showed that it measured 320' in diameter across the crest of the bank, which is now only 1' high and spread to a width of over 20'. It had a ditch 12' wide and 4' deep within the bank, both interrupted by a NW entrance 30' wide, which is still recognisable according to Feachem, though the ditch is filled in and levelled.

R J C Atkinson 1952; R W Feachem 1963; RCAHMS 1915

In 1965, the site of this henge, on a gently sloping hillside, appeared only as a slight depression and change in colour of vegetation. It was under cultivation in 1975.

Visited by OS (EGC) 14 January 1965 and (BS) 1 August 1975

Photographed by the RCAHMS in 1976 and 1980.