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Tag: Nunwick

Jun 05

Guide: Classification of Henge Monuments

Filed under Archaeology, Bronze Age, Earthworks, Henge, Iron Age, Landscape feature, Neolithic, New Sites

Archaeologists use the word “henge” for later-Neolithic and earliest Bronze-Age earthen rings whose ditch lies inside the bank, creating a deliberately bounded interior. The term itself was coined in 1932 by Kendrick; it was refined in the 1950s by Richard Atkinson, whose system still frames most discussion.

Avebury, Cana Barn, Catterick, Dorchester, Henge, Henge Classification, Knowlton, Maumbury, Nunwick, Sinderby, Thornborough
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Chapter 5 – The Later Neolithic Explosion

Filed under Brigantia England, Earthworks, Henge, Henge Capital of Britain, Neolithic

The one thousand years between 3,000 and 2,000 BC saw the Vale of Mowbray’s most significant period of development. It is at this time that the area between Boroughbridge and Catterick became the Sacred Vale, a premier ritual landscape, with Thornborough as its heart.