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juamei wrote:
And on the subject of cattlepens etc, you would be pushed to get more than 5 cows inside one of these...
They were smaller the cows in the olden days anyway ;), one of the things we forget when talking about our smaller henges, is if they have stakeholes or postholes - hurdling could also have been used. Nigel's theory a bank has to have a corresponding quarried ditch - makes a ditch somewhat unimportant. Small banked enclosures are a good way of keeping the draughts/wind out ...

...hurdling could also have been used.
Yes, one of the interesting things about the Avenues leading into Avebury is their width - they really are wide for a purely (human) ceremonial route. The sphinx-lined avenues leading to Karnack Temple, for example, are quite narrow by comparison. The same generous width of the Avebury Avenues also applies to the Chelmer (Springfield) Cursus that once led down from a wooden circle at one end of the cursus to the river at the other. I can't help thinking that the Chelmer Cursus might have been a clearly defined, and as far as livestock are concerned a safe and easy route to follow, from one end of the cursus to the Chelmer River and water meadows at the other (where incidentally cattle still graze today).