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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Maidens GraveCountry: England County: Yorkshire (East) Type: Henge
Nearest Village: Rudston
Map Ref: TA09677063
Latitude: 54.119848N Longitude: 0.323561W
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Majick123 visited on 17th Jun 2013 - their rating: Cond: 1 Amb: 3 Access: 2 I walked up alongside the Gypsey Race stream which was dry this far up stream, until came to the field where the Henge is located. There is nothing visible to the untrained eye, however, the scenery around the area is beautiful, if not a bit barren but you can see for miles around. If you could just imagine the many rectangular barrows around, this would have been an amazing place to be in the bronze age to probably the middle ages.
The monument comprises a sub-circular enclosure of around 98 metres maximum external diameter, featuring a ditch with external bank. Two broadly opposing entrances, to the south east and the north west, are visible. A later small square barrow is visible as a cropmark within the henge, while another square barrow is visible to the north, and a ring ditch abuts the external southwestern side of the henge bank.
Trial excavation in 1964 showed that little of the bank material remained unaffected by ploughing, with just 2 inches of compacted chalk rubble lying over the original ground surface. The bank was measured at circa 37 feet wide. The internal ditch was 38 feet wide, V-shaped in profile and very steep-sided, up to 13 feet 3 inches deep. No berm was observed in the excavations, although a narrow berm appears on aerial photographs. The primary ditch silts contained no finds. Beaker and Grooved Ware sherds were present in the secondary fill, while a single Roman sherd was found in the uppermost layers.
Near the centre of the henge a small trench uncovered four post holes in a line, 2 of them containing Beaker sherds. A trench across the south-eastern entrance uncovered a causeway circa 50 feet wide, with the ditch terminals "somewhat" squared at the ends and steeply sloped. Further excavations were planned but do not appear to have taken place. It has been suggested that the name "Stodefald" (horse inclosure), recorded in 1299, refers to the henge. Maiden's Grave may also have served as the wapentake meeting place, during the Early Medieval period.
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