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Priddy Henges?

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After some thought ....

Surely it's just a case of qualification. We all think of a henge as a bank with a ditch inside, regardless of size. So you have small, medium, large and extra-large henges. Some have pallisades around the rim. Some have timber circles. Some have stone circles, some have barrows.

So, you could have a medium pallisaded henge with internal stone circle. What's wrong with that? You don't need another name to describe something everyone* will understand if it's written out in full.


*you know what I mean

6 km from Priddy circles is Gorsey Bigbury, http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/3842 described as a henge but presumably later... Think it was Skinner who described it looking like a "bull pit" with high banks; its banks are much lower now due to farming practice.
Sometimes we all get stuck with the same old words to describe the prehistoric circular patterns we see.. truth is we JUST don't know how they were used ;)