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Pete G Feb 21, 2007 13:24:53
Replying to slumpystones

from the SMR
The monument includes a hengi-form monument situated within Fargo Plantation
south of the Cursus. Prior to tree planting the area had views across a shallow combe towards Stonehenge and Normanton Down. The hengi-form monument
is in the form of a ditched earthwork, roughly oval in shape, enclosing an
area 4m across. The ditch is c.1.5m wide and is interrupted by two causeways
aligned roughly north-south. The ditch surrounds a slightly sunken central
area, and examination of the ditch fills during partial excavation indicated
that there may have originally been an outer bank. The overall diameter as
originally constructed will have been c.15m. None of the earthworks are now
visible on the surface, probably as a result of the preparation of the area
for afforestation. Partial excavation in 1938 revealed a grave in the centre,
containing an inhumation with a beaker and three cremations. A fourth
cremation was found close to the inner edge of the ditch. Small pits or
post holes were found near the north and south corners of the grave.

JFS Stone excavated and wrote about it,
PeteG

S slumpystones
slumpystones Feb 21, 2007 19:14:13
Replying to Pete G

Pete G wrote:
from the SMR
The monument includes a hengi-form monument situated within Fargo Plantation
south of the Cursus. Prior to tree planting the area had views across a shallow combe towards Stonehenge and Normanton Down. The hengi-form monument
is in the form of a ditched earthwork, roughly oval in shape, enclosing an
area 4m across. The ditch is c.1.5m wide and is interrupted by two causeways
aligned roughly north-south. The ditch surrounds a slightly sunken central
area, and examination of the ditch fills during partial excavation indicated
that there may have originally been an outer bank. The overall diameter as
originally constructed will have been c.15m. None of the earthworks are now
visible on the surface, probably as a result of the preparation of the area
for afforestation. Partial excavation in 1938 revealed a grave in the centre,
containing an inhumation with a beaker and three cremations. A fourth
cremation was found close to the inner edge of the ditch. Small pits or
post holes were found near the north and south corners of the grave.

JFS Stone excavated and wrote about it,
PeteG

And that's about all of it! There is very little else, which is mighty frustrating - reams of paperwork on the Cursi, umpteen barrows ploughed flat and recorded, and a whole summer of little digs, but so little on the Fargo Henge. Even the very existence of the plantation is strange - why in Someone's name is it still there, after all they managed to chop the Cursus chunk down?

Chop the bloody trees down and use it as a restoration project, that's what I say!