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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Norththorpe HengeCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 2.293 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (East) Type: Henge
Nearest Town: Kingston upon Hull Nearest Village: Hornsea
Map Ref: TA19804890
Latitude: 53.922389N Longitude: 0.177213W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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The principal feature of the East Field crop mark site is interpreted as a henge because the cropmarks are consistent with other known henges in terms of features, scale and particularly its setting within the landscape. Its position, on slightly elevated ground, yet not on the highest land within the immediate area, is very typical for a henge. In the Neolithic, the lower lying ground to the north, south and east of the henge is likely to have been open water, before subsequent silting and drainage in more recent centuries for agricultural improvement. The association with open water is also a typical association for henges.
The henge is thought to have been reused in the Bronze Age as a ringwork because of the way that the surrounding field system clearly respects and directly relates to it. The form of this field system is not Neolithic in character, but is consistent with being part of a more extensive Bronze Age co-axial field system. In form and scale, the cropmark interpreted as a henge is also consistent with those interpreted as Bronze Age ringworks, however its position in the landscape, being low lying, is not typical. This strongly indicates that the site was not a purpose built ringwork, but was opportunistically adapted from a pre-existing monument in the landscape.
The main element is a roughly circular cropmark of a substantial ditch around 6-8m wide enclosing an area about 50m in diameter. There is a marked break in this ditch to the ESE of the centre, forming an entrance to the enclosure. The terminals of the ditch either side of the entrance are emphasised, the ditch widening to form inward pointing horns, with the entrance passage being about 10m wide, narrowing slightly internally. Immediately outside of the main ditch, clearly respecting the entrance, there is a parallel, narrower cropmark interpreted as a beam slot designed to support the inner face of the henge's encircling bank. A further, intermittent cropmark is interpreted as either an outlying, encircling ditch or the beam slot which retained the outer face of the bank. If it is the latter, the bank would have been about 15m wide. Within the interior of the henge there is a roughly circular crop mark around 15m in diameter, also with an entrance to the SSE. This is interpreted as a high-status domestic round house related to the reuse of the henge as a Bronze Age ringwork, however it may be the remains of a Neolithic structure: an inner ritual enclosure or building forming part of the henge or potentially an earlier phase of the ritual site, predating the construction of the henge's bank and ditch.
Further cropmarks within East Field indicate that there is a co-axial field system which extends beyond the scheduled area. This field system is defined by crop marks of boundary ditches which extend WNW to ESE and NNE to SSW. The henge lies to the centre of one field which is approximately square, being around 120m across. The northern boundary appears to curve around to accommodate the outer ditch or beam-slot of the henge, whilst in the eastern boundary there appears to be a break in the ditch directly in line with the henge's single entrance. On either side of the northern boundary of the field to the east, there are cropmarks of a series of smaller rectangular ditched enclosures ranging between 10m to 40m across, probably representing paddocks, garden or other enclosures related to the reuse of the henge as a Bronze Age ringwork.
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