tiompan wrote:
It has been suggested that the internal ditch and bank are a defence against what is enclosed .
We'll back to the pigsty thing next. I'm curious about these 'pseudo-henges' now. I come across things all the time that fit the Henge bill, but are tiny or just plain odd in some way. A lot of them have been recorded as raths, but that was before the henge was recognised as a monument type.