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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Arminghall Henge
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.527 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Norfolk Type: Henge

Map Ref: TG240060  Landranger Map Number: 134
Latitude: 52.605571N  Longitude: 1.306670E
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4Short walk on a footpath
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Sus visited on 12th Nov 2022 - their rating: Cond: 1 Amb: 4 Access: 4 It was exciting to stand in the middle and turn around and see it. My husband and mother walked in the opposite direction convinced that this was not the circle, so some imagination required. When I was there the earth had been turned over, possibly from recent excavation but you could make out the slight depression in the landscape and the rings around the ground. There isn't much parking, we pulled in and parked parallel to the road.

JohnLindsay visited on 1st Jul 2012 - their rating: Cond: 1 Amb: 2 Access: 3 Went past the site in teh 587 bus, two and hour, then got off in Trowse. There isn't much to see in the field but you aren't far from Whitlinghan country park. someone has already mentioned white horse lane, and I'm taken by whit lin ge ham... in the country park there is a thoroughly misleading poster board. One wonders whether something more couldn't be made of all this. Nothing in Norwich Museum which only starts with the Romans from what I can see. The 587 bus continues, or comes from, Caister, so you can add in some Roman stuff. The Pastscape article has bibliography, so to the UEA library for a read.

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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 1 Ambience: 3 Access: 3.5

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Arminghall Henge submitted by dodomad : Day 5 at Arminghall Henge. Massive post holes being uncovered again for the first time since 1935. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Henge and Timber Circle in Norfolk. In 1929 a prehistoric timber circle and henge monument site was discovered near the village by Gilbert Insall who had been taking air photos of the area in search of new archaeological sites. Whilst flying at around 2,000 feet (600 m) he noticed cropmarks of a circular enclosure made of two concentric rings with a horseshoe of eight pit-like markings within in. The entire site is around 75 m in diameter.

The site was visited by O. G. S. Crawford a week later who pronounced it to be the Norwich Woodhenge but it was not until 1935 that it was first excavated, by Grahame Clark.

His work established that two circular rings were ditches, the outer one 1.5 m deep and the inner one 2.3 m deep, with indications of a bank that once stood between them. The pits in the middle were postholes for timbers that would have been almost 1 m in diameter. The site dates to the Neolithic, with a radiocarbon date of 3650-2650 Cal BC (4440±150) from charcoal from a post-pit. The henge is orientated on the mid-winter sunset, which when viewed from the henge, sets down the slope of nearby high ground, Chapel Hill.

Fragments from a sacred landscape found in the vicinity, in Ber Street, Norwich - see comment below

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Note: Arminghall Henge is being excavated at present - the photo shows massive post holes being uncovered again for the first time since 1935
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Arminghall Henge submitted by AngieLake : This plan caught my eye because of the horseshoe shape of the posts that used to stand in the centre of Arminghall. I wonder if the builders of Stonehenge were influenced by this site? In 'Circles & Standing Stones' by Evan Hadingham [1978 edition, where this pic was found], he says that the site is carbon-dated to 3400 BC. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Arminghall Henge submitted by andy_h : A view over the slight remains of Arminghall Henge to the south of Norwich. All that remains is a vague dip in the ground, but this would once have been a spectacular site with a double bank and ditch and an internal setting of posts. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Arminghall Henge submitted by andy_h (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Arminghall Henge submitted by Bladup : Arminghall Henge, The left image is a lidar photo of the site, The right is an image of the site from above (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Arminghall Henge submitted by Sus : Arminghall Henge in Norfolk, with disturbed earth, presumably as a result of recent excavation

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Lost in a Landscape: Arminghall henge by Andy B on Saturday, 01 October 2022
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Imagine for a moment flying over a landscape. There is a city below you receding to one side, fields coming into view on the other, lots of features to look at as well as flying a plane. You look down and spot a mark in a field, and this is the sort of thing you are looking for; two clear circles and a horseshoe of some sort, just a crop mark but there is something there. So you grab a your camera and snap a couple of photos of it as you pass then carry on looking for more.

More at
https://www.invisibleworks.co.uk/the-henge/

One of our members asked for details of the Clarke excavation of Arminghall Henge - I had a rummage and amazingly this small bit of Antiquity journal from 1935 is Open Access - I love the way it's written:
Link to Antiquity
That is Clarke, J.D.. 1935. Antiquity. Vol IX, p 465-9. including this note: "Norwich representatives of the Electricity Board extended facilities for utilizing their pylon for photographs and showed keen interest..."

The other reference is Clark, G. 1936. The Timber Monument at Arminghall and its Affinities. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. Vol II Pt 1 pp 1-51. pp 1-52 which I don't have access to:
Link to Paper

I've tweeted about this here: https://twitter.com/megportal/status/1576202339182350337
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Re: Arminghall Henge by Anonymous on Monday, 26 September 2022
Check out the lidar!
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Arminghall Henge is being excavated at the moment by Andy B on Monday, 12 September 2022
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Arminghall Henge is being excavated at the moment - you can follow the updates here:

https://twitter.com/hashtag/ArminghallHenge?src=hashtag_click&f=live
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Re: Arminghall Henge by Anonymous on Saturday, 30 November 2013
Regarding the Markshall sites are visible on Google earth, select 11/9/2006 photo. :-)

Site 1) 52° 35' 39.21", +1° 17' 50.74" diameter ~40 meters

Site 2) 52°35'35.77"N 1°17'50.32"E diameter ~28 meters

A third can be seen on the 31/12/1999 photo.

These look like round barrows that have been progressively ploughed out from 1999.
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Re: Arminghall Henge by JohnLindsay on Sunday, 06 May 2012
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I'm wondering what is known about Norwich castle mound? Just because it is called something different, it doesn't mean there isn't something there, absence of evidence not being evidence of absence. This is a words and things matter.
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Re: Arminghall Henge by Anonymous on Monday, 25 July 2011
hey .visited the henge today by recomendation of a friend,1st thought what a place to plonck a sub station,dont know if it was the electric but i got a very bad vibe ,a feeling of being pulled down
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Re: Arminghall Henge by Stow-hist on Tuesday, 03 August 2010
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There are a total of three possible henges at Markshall. I flew over the one mentioned above in 1997 and took a couple of clear photos. It is 133feet across (43mtrs) with an inner ring of 54 feet (17mtrs) it is just north of the A47 southern by-pass. Directly south of the by-pass are two mor rings in the same field that cann be seen on the Google Earth web site if you go into the 2006 time line picture. The northern one of the two is about the same diameter as the first one mentioned and the southern one is about 90 feet across (27mtrs). I would be interested to hear whether these may also be considered to be henges or possible ploughed out burial sites.
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Re: Arminghall Henge by j_crack on Monday, 21 December 2009
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There is a second henge like mark located at the following coordinants 52° 35' 39.21", +1° 17' 50.74" (near Markshall). Both this site and Arminghall appear to be connected by the River Tas.

This reminds me of stone henge / wood henge connection.

Does anyone know if the Markshall site is a henge ?
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Re: Arminghall Henge by coldrum on Sunday, 28 June 2009
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Pastscape page on this site:

http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=132451
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Re: Arminghall Henge by AngieLake on Thursday, 08 November 2007
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"Arminghall in Norfolk consists of two rings of ditches, with a bank heaped up between them, instead of the single inner ditch found at most other enclosures. Situated inside this precinct was an oval setting"...[which looks like a horseshoe]...."of eight massive timber posts, each of them about three feet in diameter. With an average distance of about ten feet in between each post it is possible, but unlikely, that the posts could have been linked together or even roofed over. If this possibility is discounted, what was the purpose of this tall ring of timbers? Could they have been brightly painted or carved, like totem poles?"

As he also refers to a carbon-dating of 3400 BC, I wonder if Stonehenge's builders borrowed this design of a horseshoe of posts?
[From 'Circles & Standing Stones' by Evan Hardingham, 1978 edition]
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Re: Arminghall Henge by Anonymous on Thursday, 16 August 2007
I live just outside Norwich so have visited oft times.

Always amuses me that Arminghall is just off 'White Horse' lane - wonder wots sitting under a grassy knoll surrounding the Henge site?

There are numerous 'Wood post hole' Henges in Fornham St Genevieve and a processional avenue from there - right to the Bury St Edmunds Abbey Gardens. Numerous stone age implements have been found in both areas! Never mentioned coz of religious connections eh.

The famous Michael / Mary line runs bang through Bury (so a direct connection to Avebury / Stonehenge) and there are loads of Tumuli/barrows dotted all over the Western area of Bury heading towards Mildenhall/Lakenheath. These make amazing alignments Stretching for miles thru Culford/Newmarket/Haverhill/Seven Sisters (near Thetford) etc and beyond!
Just a tidbit - the road running out of Bury and heading to Mildenhall/Ramsey/Peterborough/Lincoln is the lowest road in Britian! LOL

It's also heading towards the Ancient roadway the Icknield way about five miles northerly/Westerly of Bury and the area where a certain Cambridge Prof now professes is the location of TROY! (Book- 2005edition - Where Troy Once Stood)

Thanks for all your input too folks.
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    Re: Arminghall Henge by Anonymous on Thursday, 16 August 2007
    PS Forgot to mention -

    Prof John North in his brilliant book on Stonehenge+others
    inc ARMINGHALL which he says "was as IMPORTANT as STONEHENGE" in ancient days!!!

    [Stonehenge, Neolithic Man And The Cosmos 1997]

    has dissected Arminghall to a molecular degree with amazing alignments theories and observations (just in case you wanna know how it all looked in those days :) )) Cheers!
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Re: Arminghall Henge by djexcavator on Monday, 13 August 2007
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University of East Anglia Virtual Reality Study at Arminghall.

Fascinating stuff....



I go there a few times a year being a Norwich person....

Not much to see but eh!

Luck to have a henge in East Anglia at all!
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Fragments from a sacred landscape found in Ber Street, Norwich by Andy B on Friday, 06 October 2006
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To the untrained eye it looks like a piece of rubble. For archaeologists however, this 4,000 year-old fragment is part of the one of the most significant discoveries in Norwich for more than 60 years.

It was unearthed at an excavation in Ber Street and is believed to come from a Bronze Age Round Barrow - also thought to be the first ever found in the heart of the city.

Giles Emery, project officer for NAU which is part of Norfolk Property Services (NPS), said: “The monument would have measured up to 20m in diameter, consisting of a central burial or cremation covered by a circular mound surrounded by a ditch and bank.

"Flint tools and sherds of Bronze Age pottery known as Beaker pottery have been recovered from the site.

"This particular barrow also lies within sight of the confluence of the Rivers Tas and Yare - an area known for its prehistoric activity including the Arminghall henge."

A team of four archaeologists has been working at the site for two weeks but, because of the discovery, has been given an extra week to continue searching and recording.

More: EDP24
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Re: Arminghall Henge by andy_h on Monday, 15 March 2004
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Set in the historic landscape near Trowse, close to Norwich City Centre, there's not much left to see here. The henge itself is only discernable if you know what you are looking for and exactly where, and consists of little more than a slight depression, The ambience is spoiled by being next to a house, between a couple of pylons and a nearby electical substation.

Nearby Trowse has flintmine workings.
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Re: Arminghall Henge by stuartlamb on Monday, 21 April 2003
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I live 5 minutes away from this "most important henge of its kind outside of Wessex". Unfortunately, it is most unimpressive but if you walk around the circle in the field and imagine what might have gone on all those years ago you will surely smile.

If you park in The ***** pub car park in Old Lakenham and then walk over the river and railway bridges there is a footpath into the field in the direction of the henge. Follow the line of the hedgerow to the South along to towards the house. The henge is between two pylons to the left (east) of the house.
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