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Henge with stone settings

Coneybury Henge

Also known asHenge monument 400m south of Stonehenge Cottages

United Kingdom

Datedc. 3047–2925 BCE

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Coneybury Henge is a henge which is part of the Stonehenge Landscape in Wiltshire, England. The henge, which has been almost completely flattened, was only discovered in the 20th century. Geophysical surveys and excavation have uncovered many of its features, which include a northeast entrance, an internal circle of postholes, and fragments of bone and pottery.

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Where it sits in time

The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.

The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.

  1. Göbekli Tepe9600 BCE
  2. First farming9500 BCE
  3. Avebury2600 BCE
  4. Great Pyramid of Giza2560 BCE
  5. Stonehenge2500 BCE
  6. Bronze Age collapse1200 BCE
  7. Rome founded753 BCE
  8. Parthenon447 BCE
  9. Hadrian's Wall122 CE
  10. Machu Picchu built1450 CE
12,000 BCE8,000 BCE4,000 BCE1 CE1,500 CE
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3047–2925 BCEHow this date was established: Radiocarbon datingMeasured

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Coneybury Henge: the whole story

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In brief

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Coneybury Henge is part of the Stonehenge Landscape in Wiltshire, England. It lies around 1.4 kilometres east-by-southeast of Stonehenge, which can be seen from the site. Views extend southeast across the Avon valley and west towards Normanton Down. The site is also known as Henge monument 400m south of Stonehenge Cottages.

The henge has been almost completely flattened by ploughing and is difficult to identify on the ground. It was first noticed from the air in the 1920s and was then thought to be a disc barrow. Later aerial photographs showed an oval ditch around 45 metres by 55 metres in diameter, with an entrance on the longer axis on the northeast side. Traces of an external bank are said to be visible.

Excavation in 1980 as part of the Stonehenge Environs Project revealed a broad oval ditch around 4 metres wide by 3 metres deep. Inside were a few pits and postholes, numerous stakeholes, and an arc of postholes along the inner edge of the enclosure ditch that may have formed a post circle. Finds included pottery ranging from the early Neolithic to middle Bronze Age, animal bone, and a human cremation. Radiocarbon dating places the henge between 3047 BCE and 2925 BCE.

About 12 metres northwest, the Coneybury Anomaly is a pit containing large quantities of early Neolithic pottery and animal bone, together with flint tools of both Mesolithic and Neolithic types. Excavators suggest it represents a gathering organised by a regional community, with participants from different cultures and locations. Henges of this kind typically have an internal ditch surrounded by a bank, with a central flat area more than 20 metres across.

Setting

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Coneybury Henge is around 1.4 kilometres east-by-southeast of Stonehenge, which can be seen from the site. The location has extensive views southeast across the Avon valley, and west towards Normanton Down. The henge is difficult to identify on the ground, having been levelled by ploughing, but has been identified on aerial photographs, geophysical survey, and by excavation. The absence of any mention of the henge in historical records suggests that it may have been levelled in medieval times or soon after, and this theory is supported by ridge and furrow marks visible on some aerial photographs.