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Priddy Henges

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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.

I have been looking at several hi res pics I took at different angles and I suspect there maybe more than four, maybe 6 or more!
I will have to fly again when it is frosty!
PeteG

They are certainly intriguing - no entrances.

I think burl reckoned without the outer henge, which is only a very wide 1m bank outside the outer ditch. The current "official" size of the Thornborough Henges is that they are all more or less identical and are 240m in diameter.