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Hi Pete,

What's your take on Priddy, as I understand it there is some concern amongst archaeologists with respect to Priddy, since the ditches are on the outside. As the alignment goes, it appears to point to Thornborough. Do they look the part?

I first visited Priddy as a teenager after seeing the carved stone in Bristol museum.
Yesterday was the first time I saw the site from the air.
How similar to Thornborough are they?
I will go and do a site visit and check alignments when the frost is on the ground.
Feel free to use the pic as you will if it helps your campaign.
PeteG

This from Burl
"At the three henges at Thornborough in North Yorkshire, 'almost a straight line', the middle earthwork is 32m to the east of the line between the NNW and SSE enclosures. At priddy the centres of the thre henges form a 475m line from which the central henge deviates by 7.3m to the west. Even more exaggeratdely the unfinshed fourth henge is a full 67m off line."

They are substantially larger than Thornbro'
the smallest being 149-158m in diameter and the largest 170m compared to Thornbro's 92-97m.
Another difference is that the Priddy henges have no entrances and of course there are four of them, although the fourth is incomplete and is somewhat seperate from the group of three.