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You get some mad forts in Ireland. This one for instance ...

http://www.megalithomania.com/irishgenius/zCregduff.htm

I think that there were probably just the same sort of monument in England et al, but intensive farming (still to really reach Ireland) has erased them.

The layout you describe would fit well with a lot of Irish sites, but the 40m gap would be a huge one even in the largest over here. Something that large would tend to have a stone fort in the centre.

Buzbury to me, looked like an existing monument/settlement (the inner bank) that someone had then added fortifications around at a later date. The area is full of hillforts (badbury, hod hill) but also henges (knowlton & Mount Pleasant less than 20 miles away)..