Henge of Arminghall
The Henge von Arminghall, discovered in 1929, is located south of Norwich in Norfolk , England .
A henge is a special type of Neolithic earthwork , here with the wooden post circle in the center. 120 Henge monuments can be found mainly in the south of England, but also in Ireland and other regions of the British Isles . Arminghall was discovered northwest of the village of Arminghall by Gilbert Insall (1894–1972), who took aerial photographs in search of archaeological sites in the area. From a height of about 600 m he noticed the traces of a round enclosure made up of two concentric circles with a horseshoe consisting of eight pit marks in the center. The entire complex is approximately 75.0 m in diameter.
The place was visited a week later by Osbert Crawford (1886-1957) and referred to as "Norwich Woodhenge", but was not excavated until 1935 by Grahame Clark (1907-1995). Clark found two circular ring trenches, each with an in-line access, of which the outer 1.5 m and the inner 2.3 m deep, with signs of a wall in between. The pits in the middle were post holes for logs that were nearly three feet in diameter. The henge dates from the Neolithic (3650–2650 BC) , as 14C data from the charcoal from one of the post holes showed .
literature
- Richard Cavendish: Prehistoric England. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1983, ISBN 0-297-78315-7 ( Discover England ).
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Coordinates: 52 ° 36 ′ 20.7 " N , 1 ° 18 ′ 22.8" E