Woodhenge’s potential as something that little bit different (ultimately a mad site full of wooden posts) was spotted from the air by a chap called Insall, and it was excavated by Maud Cunnington in the 1920s. Before this it was known as ‘The Dough Cover’ – its low bank and vaguely domed middle looked like the wooden lid of a bread dough dish (like wot people used to prove their bread in before Mother’s Pride was invented).
(mentioned by Mike Pitts in his ‘Hengeworld’)