Henge of Mayburgh
The Henge de Mayburgh (also Mayborough ) is located south of Penrith in Cumbria near the River Eamont and the A66 in Northern England . It consists of a wall that is now overgrown with trees and is 117 m in diameter. The outer moat is interrupted to the east by an entrance that points in the direction of the Henges King Arthur's Round Table about 400 m away . Both are under the protection of the world cultural heritage .
Mayburgh's Wall is made of pebbles that come from the nearby river. It has no internal trench from which material for the wall was taken. This is a technology that is otherwise only known from Irish henges. A broken and buried Cumbrian ax was found at the entrance in the late 19th century . A 2.8 m high menhir stands near the center. It is the remainder of what is supposed to be four stones that originally stood around the center in the 19th century. In Scotland there are four-stone systems known as the four- poster stone circle, but much smaller and from the Bronze Age . According to William Camden, a 16th century antiquarian, the four stones stood at the corners of a 18.3 × 16.2 m rectangle in the middle of the henge. Four more stones once flanked the entrance. The henge, which has not been investigated, is dated 2500 BC Estimated.
literature
- Richard Cavendish: Prehistoric England . Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1983, ISBN 0-297-78315-7 , ( Discover England ).
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Coordinates: 54 ° 38 ′ 55.9 " N , 2 ° 44 ′ 46.2" W.