Henge from Conon Bridge

The Henge of Conon Bridge is located between the road A862 and the River Conon in the south of Conon Bridge south of Dingwall in the Highlands in Scotland A Henge [ hɛndʒ ] (also henge monument called) is a Neolithic earthwork . Henges are round or oval surfaces that were surrounded by an earth wall with mostly internal ditches.

Conon Bridge consists of a flat circular area 14.4 m in diameter surrounded by a 2.7 m wide moat with a 1.5 m wide dam to the southeast. An approximately 3.6 m wide wall with an outer diameter of about 25.0 m surrounds the trench, but apparently has no passage that corresponds to the dam over the trench. At first glance, this appears to be a Class I henge by Richard JC Atkinson (1920–1994), but only an excavation can clarify whether the wall was originally completely ring-shaped. If so, the structure could at best be described as a protohenge or henge-shaped earthwork . It dates from the 2nd or 3rd millennium BC. Chr.

literature

Anna Ritchie, Graham Ritchie: Scotland. To Oxford Archaeological Guide . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1998, ISBN 0-19-288002-0 , ( Oxford archaeological guides )

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↑ engl. Hengiforms are only 5 - 20 m in diameter. Like an ordinary henge, they encompass an earthwork with a fairly wide outer wall. The terms mini henge or Dorchester henge are used as synonyms for hengiform monuments. One example is the Wormy Hillock Henge .

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57.562151 -4.437339Coordinates: 57 ° 33 '43.7 " N , 4 ° 26" 14.4 " W.

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[1] . Hengiforms are only 5 - 20 m in diameter. Like an ordinary henge, they encompass an earthwork with a fairly wide outer wall. The terms mini henge or Dorchester henge are used as synonyms for hengiform monuments. One example is the Wormy Hillock Henge .