Adrian Craze There are many henges in Britain (though none - TopicsExpress



          

Adrian Craze There are many henges in Britain (though none elsewhere) – but Stonehenge isn’t one of them. Archaeologists define a ‘henge’ as having a ditch on the inside and a bank on the outside; Stonehenge is the other way round. Having a ditch inside a bank is not a practical arrangement for defensive purposes, so henges are assumed to have had a ritual function. (The full definition is ‘a nearly circular or oval flat area over 65 feet across that is enclosed by a boundary earthwork that comprises a ditch with an external bank pierced by one, two, or four entrances’.) The most famous true henge in the UK is probably Avebury, about 20 miles north of Stonehenge.
Posted on: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 10:49:08 +0000

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