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Priddy Henges?

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akas555 Nov 28, 2006 13:46:42

Replying to BrigantesNation

I happened upon this piece:

http://www.capra.group.shef.ac.uk/2/upwards.html

...interesting reading - might also lend weight to the idea that the banks are to protect against what is inside the circles - perhaps the piles of stones thrown into the holes were to keep whatever was placed below in?

tiompan Nov 28, 2006 16:05:16

Replying to akas555

As well as the possibility of the ditch and bank of a henge being a defence against what is enclosed . There is the the case of the stones of a stone circle having the same function e.g. at Tomnaverie excavation showed that the last act of construction was the erection of the outer stones . BTW John Barnatt and Mark Edmonds did a very good paper in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal 2002 on "Places Apart ? Caves and Monuments in Neolithic and earier Bronze Age Britain " . Mostly centred on the Peak District and and Clywd .