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fitzcoraldo Aug 13, 2004 21:17:34
Replying to BrigantesNation

I guess it's how you define a henge and whether you view henges as being frozen in time or a monument that was being altered by different generations. The enclosure-long barrow-cursus-henge-alignment thang.
An example would be Stanton Drew where you had a possible circular ditch enclosing concentric post rings - (seems pretty henge-like to me), which then evolved into the Great Circle. I'm sure there are better examples by my aunty stella arrived a while ago

As for later use, the best known example is the evolution of the village of Avebury - 'lets put a boozer in the middle of the henge and a church on the edge' - them boys knew a thing about town planning.
King Arthurs round table & the Little Table appear to have been some form of sports arena in the time of Stukeley,(if his sketch is to be believed) King Arthur's has also been used as a tea garden.

B BrigantesNation
BrigantesNation Aug 14, 2004 00:29:08
Replying to fitzcoraldo

I still can't see any reason to think that Scholes was a henge.

This quote is from my webpage:

"Scholes Wood, hill-slope fort. This is an oval site of about 1 acre, It is protected by a bank and ditch and has an original entrance at the NE. The main bank rises 3ft. above the interior. The site is overlooked by higher ground NE, W and S. Date, c. 1st century BC - 1st century AD. : but some believe it is not prehistoric" Guide to Prehistoric England, Nicholas Thonas, 1960.

This is from Chris Cumberpatch:

"To my mind there is no evidence that the site is of Neolithic date (it certainly isn't a henge, or at least, not one of conventional form. My own opinion is that it is of later prehistoric date as the Roman pottery in the ditch would seem to suggest that it is not post-Roman in date (although the pottery could be residual).
Morphologically it does not seem to fit in with the LIA / Early Roma cropmark landscape and one could argue that it is of EIA or MIA date on these grounds, although this would be somewhat speculative."

The SMR agree with his description.