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I think the henges may not all have had the same use.
I really do not think Mayburgh was a cattle pen. The people who built Mayburgh expended so much effort, built the walls so high, that I can not believe it was all for cattle. Cattle can be protected with a decent stockade wall or fence, would that not have been easier to construct?
At Mayburgh, the entrances seem to be aligned to significant hills, one looks out towards Blencathra, the other to Cross Fell, on the Pennines.
A stone axe was found in the entrance, which suggests that the site had some sort of spritual significance.
There are two futher henges and a stone circle (now destroyed) in the same area.
I do think that the areas may have been used as a meeting/market area. Mayburgh lies at the confluence of three important rivers, did the rivers act as the motorways of the past, bringing people together, to trade, to meet, to worship?
I love Mayburgh henge, and love thinking about what its all about.
Will we ever really know??
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