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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre Alternative Name: Maelmin Heritage Trail, Maelmin Henge
Country: England County: Northumberland Type: Henge
Nearest Town: Wooler  Nearest Village: Milfield
Map Ref: NT9400033631  Landranger Map Number: 74
Latitude: 55.596266N  Longitude: 2.096771W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 5 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Anne T visited on 31st May 2018 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Maelmin Recreated Henge, Milfield: We had a bit of a tortuous journey to get here, having been stuck in roadworks on the A1 northbound, so instead of the hour and a half it would have taken us, it was almost two and a half, so we were eager to get out of the car and walk. Having found the ‘Archaeological Guide’ by Clive Waddington in a local charity shop about 10 days ago, I had read it from cover to cover and was really keen to see this site. I’d shown the booklet to our three year (going on 63) old grand-daughter and we’d talked through the photos on the journey here. As we walked into the centre of the henge from the car park, she turned to me and, pulling a face, said; “It’s just a ‘thing’ with a deep hole”. Having spotted all the information boards round the site and running through the woods, she ran from one to the other. On getting to the Dark Age hut at the far side of the site, she was fascinated by this, and we had to go inside. Opening the door was amusing, at the wood had swollen in the rain and it took a while to get it to swing open gently without trapping fingers. We walked back around to the henge following the circular path around the field, taking in the airfield. We found a sign saying ‘Mesolithic hut’ but there was only a hollow in the ground with a few poles laid inside. No totem poles, or none that we could spot, anyway. It looks like these have now been replaced with two taller plain tree trunks. After reading the story of the recreation of the henge, I did enjoy seeing it but had expected more from the heritage trail, which was essentially a ‘trail’ of information boards but without any real specific context or associated feature to look at. Would go again, without dearly loved child, to soak in the atmosphere. We went onto the Heatherslaw Light Railway - a great 15in gauge railway, ideal for small children and grandparents!

Richard13 visited on 1st Aug 2005 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 5

Modern-Neolithic visited - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5

drolaf Andy B have visited here

Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4 Ambience: 4 Access: 4.67

Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre
Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre submitted by Modern-Neolithic : Milfield Reconstructed Henge in Northumberland. (Vote or comment on this photo)
A superb reconstruction of a henge in the style of those on the Milfield plain, Northumberland, found only from crop marks. Also a reconstruction of a prehistoric house as part of a 0.6km history trail on the site.

For more information see The Maelmin Heritage Trail and Pastscape Monument No. 3935. The Pastscape record gives details of the original henge and its excavation.

Note: Just to be different - here's one of the other sites touched upon in the discussion of the wider World of Stonehenge that you can listen to now on BBC Sounds. Featuring archaeologists Mike Pitts, Susan Greaney and Seren Griffiths. and the British museum exhibition curator Neil Wilkin. More in the comments on our page
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Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre
Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre submitted by Ethelwulf : This wooden sculpture, from 2000, represents the various races who have populated the Northumberland area. This image is dedicated to my ancestors from these races! The original neolitic settlers from 10000BC whose hut remains, showed a complex society. The Celts, who arrived 800BC, and built the hill forts that can be seen on most Northumbrian summits. The Anglo-Saxons s... (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre
Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre submitted by Andy B : Part of the Burnham family trip to Northumberland, August 2002 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre
Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre submitted by Andy B (Vote or comment on this photo)

Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre
Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre submitted by Anne T : This is all there was of the Mesolithic Hut - the sign stood proudly by, but just a sort-of-circular hollow in the ground. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre
Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre submitted by Anne T : The henge from the Mesolithic hut base. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre
Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre submitted by Anne T : The henge from the small 'viewing platform' by the car park.

Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre
Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre submitted by Anne T : The Dark Age hut - our grand-daughter was fascinated by this hut, and we had to walk twice round the trail to revisit it. Shame the inside was littered and uncared for.

Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre
Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre submitted by Anne T : The henge from the Dark Age hut.

Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre
Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre submitted by Anne T : Photostitch of three photos of the henge from half way between the Dark Age hut and the site of the Mesolithic Hut, looking back towards the car park and Milfield village.

Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre
Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre submitted by drolaf : Milfield reconstruction with hills to south. to the east are hills with many rock carvings.

Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre
Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre submitted by Modern-Neolithic : Milfield Reconstructed Henge.

Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre
Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre submitted by Andy B : Part of the Burnham family trip to Northumberland, August 2002

Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre
Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre submitted by Andy B

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World of Stonehenge discussion on BBC R3 and BBC Sounds, Listen Again by Andy B on Wednesday, 16 February 2022
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Free Thinking - Stonehenge History

Anne McElvoy looks at culture and travel between Britain and Europe from 4000 to 1000 BC, what we understand about the building of Stonehenge and other sites of that period in Scotland and Wales. Her guests are three archaeologists: Mike Pitts, Susan Greaney and Seren Griffiths. and the British museum exhibition curator Neil Wilkin. The World of Stonehenge runs at the British Museum in London from February 17th to July 17th 2022.

Thanks to Seren and Sue this touched upon Durrington, Bryn Celli Ddu and the henges up at Maelmin and elsewhere.

Listen Now:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0014g7y
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Pits and the architecture of deposition narratives of social practice by Andy B on Wednesday, 04 April 2018
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Pits and the architecture of deposition narratives of
social practice in the neolithic of North-East England
Edwards, Benjamin (2009)Pits and the architecture of deposition narratives of social practice in the
neolithic of North-East England, Durham theses, Durham University. Available at Durham E-Theses
Online:http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2164/

This doctoral thesis examines the practice of depositing material culture and its relationship
with social change during the Neolithic period in north-east England. For the purposes of this
study the Neolithic is defined as the period in which the pottery styles of Carinated Ware,
Impressed Ware and Grooved Ware were made and used. The study area encompasses
County Durham, Northumberland and the now defunct county of Tyne and Wear.
Previous work on Neolithic deposition has been apt to confine it within a series of
dichotomous relationships: the potency of material culture versus the power of performance;
rubbish versus 'meaningful' material; and the structured versus the unstructured deposit. This
study demonstrates how these oppositions are unnecessarily reductive and result from
modern classifications of artefacts - norms concerning the value of refuse and the role of
'symbolic' material - that have come to be imposed upon the past.
By undertaking a statistical and comparative analysis of deposited material culture from the
North-East, this research emphasises the complexity of past artefact classification, and the
transformative role that depositional practices can have upon whole societies. It also shows
how acts of deposition are intimately connected with architectural forms, be they single posts
in pits, or complexes of henges. By utilising a biographical and narrative approach to
interpretation, eschewing the search for the 'symbolic' in artefact disposal, the deposition of
material culture is exposed as central to the ontological security of Neolithic communities
and the built environment that they created.

http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2164/1/2164_172.PDF
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The Maelmin Always Rings Twice by Andy B on Monday, 28 September 2015
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The Maelmin Always Rings Twice (groan!) Archaeodeath (otherwise known as Prof. Howard M. R. Williams) visits the Maelmin Heritage Trail

The landscape around Millfield, Northumberland is a rich archaeological landscape spanning from the Mesolithic to modern era. Having visited Yeavering/Ad Gefrin, Bamburgh and Lindisfarne the previous day, I went back to the Millfield basin to ascend Yeavering Bell. En route, I stopped off very early morning to walk around the Maelmin Heritage Trail on the edge of Millfield. Here I encountered something very different from the other sites: the work of Archaeological Research Services constructed around the millennium.

The Anglo-Saxon palace site of Maelmin was the successor to Ad Gefrin. Never excavated, aerial photographs revealed a elaborate complex of timber halls, enclosures and burial sites comparable to Yeavering and Thirlings. Excavations of two Neolithic henges at Millfield also found secondary early Anglo-Saxon inhumation graves reusing these ancient monuments. Again it is unclear the full duration of the site without extensive excavations but close by lower-status Anglo-Saxon settlements at Cheviot Quarry (published in the Archaeological Journal) and other sites reveal the broader pattern of early medieval settlement around the Millfield basin.

As with Ad Gefrin, the Maelmin Heritage Trail faces the stark challenge of communicating a rich archaeological landscape in which there is almost nothing to see above ground for the visitor. The heritage trail originally had three reconstructions (two extant) and a massive dose of heritage boards set within a plot of land managed as a mix grassland and woodland.

Read more at:
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2014/06/28/maelmin-always-rings-twice/

Part two is here
Maelmin Life-Histories

... if one minor criticism were to be levelled at the Maelmin Heritage Trail, it is one that is valid of many heritage sites, namely that there is no engagement with debates regarding the ‘past in the past’: how past people engaged with inherited material cultures, earthworks and monuments from earlier times. For example, prehistoric monuments like henges and burial mounds are described in and of their significance for the Neolithic, but not for subsequent periods when they might have been used and reused for different purposes.

This is an appropriate comment for the Maelmin site because the henge monuments that existed at Millfield had an interesting life and afterlife. Following excavation by Professor Anthony Harding, now of the University of Exeter, they were found to have attracted later activity. Both henges were reused for early Anglo-Saxon burials, presumably associated with the royal palace of Maelmin only known from aerial photographic evidence close by. At Yeavering itself, the traces of the henge attracted metalworking activities, where incidentally or deliberately. These are all instances of the early medieval reactivation and reuse of prehistoric monuments.

https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2014/08/24/henge-wars/
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The first Kirknewton Archaeology Festival Events programme by Andy B on Monday, 03 September 2012
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Kirknewton Archaeology Festival Weekend - Saturday, September 1 - September 8
Free exhibition of archaeology in this historic landscape; demonstrations of prehistoric pottery, spinning, weaving, felting and dying; Morris dancers; tours to the site of Anglo Saxon Royal Palace at Gefrin (transport provided). Refreshments available.

PDF download Download the Kirknewton Archaeology Festival Leaflet
http://www.northumberlandnationalpark.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/264064/Kirknewton-Leaflet.pdf

Volunteer Ranger Guided Walks - Various dates (Summer 2012)

Either side of National Parks Week, our Volunteer Rangers are running a number of free guided walks at various locations throughout the National Park. Check out our events calendar for details of dates and locations.

http://www.northumberlandnationalpark.org.uk/visiting/whatson/eventhighlights/events-calendar

eg: Guided Walk to College Valley Hillforts including Ring Chesters and Mid Hill (see nearby sites list)

[Two places we don't have photos of if anyone is thinking of going!]

Seven mile strenuous walk with Northumberland National Park Voluntary Rangers.Transport provided between start and finish of walk.

Date: 6th Sep 2012 9:30am
Location: Kirknewton Village Hall
http://www.northumberlandnationalpark.org.uk/visiting/whatson/eventhighlights/northumberland/kirknewton-archaeology-week-guided-walk-to-college-valley-hillforts-including-ring-chesters-and-mid-hill?SQ_CALENDAR_DATE=2012-09-06
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The first Kirknewton Archaeology Festival by Andy B on Monday, 03 September 2012
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In the first week of September 2012, the tiny village of Kirknewton in North Northumberland will be making a big statement about its importance in the tide of history.

You would be forgiven for wondering what this tranquil, rural community, tucked into the lee of the Cheviots by the River Glen between Wooler and Coldstream could possibly have to say, but the truth is this is one of the richest and most significant historic landscapes in England, as well as being one of the most beautiful.

Neolithic henges (on this page and see the nearby sites list above), Bronze Age burial sites and Iron Age hillforts; the Royal capital of the Anglo Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria at Gefrin; sites of the bitter mediaeval battles between England and Scotland; home of Nelson’s right hand man, Admiral Collingwood; the northern hills and valleys of the Cheviots and Glendale around Kirknewton have them all.

Organised by National Park volunteers working closely with local people, this festival opens the door to archaeology for interested adults and children by offering a host of free events. A special exhibition over the weekend with demonstrations of historic pottery, spinning, weaving and dyeing is coupled with a week-long programme of walks and talks to many of the important sites in the area, brought to life by the knowledge and passion of knowledgeable archaeologists and historians. (Download the programme).

The Kirknewton Archaeology Festival Week was the idea of two Northumberland National Park Voluntary Rangers; Ann Logan and Brian Rogers. They offered a programme of short walks at Kirknewton in 2008 which was well received and after the recent review of the Kirknewton Conservation Area Plan were encouraged to resume and develop this work. Kirknewton is the only Conservation Area in Northumberland National Park and was created in 1996 to protect and enhance the special architectural and historical interest of the area.

Working in partnership with the National Park archaeologist Chris Jones, the County archaeologist Chris Burgess, Roger Miket from the Gefrin Trust and the Kirknewton village hall committee, they set about creating a week-long festival of walks, talks, information and visits, to highlight the history and archaeology surrounding the beautiful area and based in the village of Kirknewton.

“We both love this north end of the Cheviots and seek to help Northumberland National Park raise the profile of this area of world class archaeology by showing and explaining it to visitors, while supporting this small local community and the archaeological networks in North Northumberland and the Borders”, said Ann.

Ann has been a voluntary Ranger for nine years and Brian nearly eight years. In 2009 they both completed a three year course, ‘Volunteering in Conservation and Heritage’ run jointly by Northumberland National Park and the University of Sunderland.

“We wanted to offer free, interesting guided walks to the public that would broaden their knowledge of all the lumps and bumps that are everywhere in this landscape and are passed by some walkers without even a second glance. These scars are the remains of people’s lifestyles from as long ago as 5000 years. The down side for some people is that a great number of the sites are on high ground and without helicopter access the only way to see them is on foot. That is why a number of the walks are graded strenuous”, said Brian.

As not everyone interested is able to undertake the walks, Ann and Brian have arranged an evening ‘talks’ programme and invited eminent archaeologists and historians to educate and entertain. There is no charge for the talks which will take place at Kirknewton village hall each weekday night at 7.30pm, except Tuesday, when the venue is The Cheviot Centre in Wooler, where because of limited

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Maelmin Heritage Trail by coldrum on Monday, 29 June 2009
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Maelmin Heritage Trail

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Re: Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin by coldrum on Monday, 29 June 2009
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