Henge corrals?

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Not wishing to prolong this and not wanting to go over old ground, but I would appreciate your views on this. Is it a stone circle or a ring cairn or a fanciful reconstruction or...a corral?

This photo is perhaps one of the clearest on file...http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=My_eGallery&file=index&do=showpic&pid=18321

Whatever it became , fanciful reconstruction , corral etc. who knows .What we do know is that it had a cinerary urn ,dated from the Middle Bronze Age ,containing cremated bone , buried in a pit and covered by a cairn , alongside were were two flint scrapers and a flint knife . Another pit containing a cremation was close to the pit and near the centre was a cist with a cup marked capston .A third pit was filled with stones and had another cup marked rock close to it. Nine stones , possibly not socketed but merely held in place by an embanked ring encircled the pits/cairn .The tallest stone was in the SW . All that adds to me as a ritual site unless of course all this cremated bone and marking rocks stuff was really an early form of Steinerian biodynamics and it was really a walled garden.

Interesting. Wonder if that gap in the right-hand section of the wall is original?

Crikey Peter....
Barbrook II...A corral? I'm suddenly reminded of Emile Heskey in the 6-yard box.

nice one
stu.