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surfdog666
surfdog666
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Time Team Loch Migdale Henge
Mar 10, 2010, 16:00
hello
i'm new to this Forum and was hoping someone could answer a question for me.

i read in one of the other posts that the henge Time Team excavated at Loch Migdale wasn't a henge, i was just wondering what other interpretation there could be for an earthwork with an outer bank and inner ditch, sounds like a henge to me.


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juamei
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Re: Time Team Loch Migdale Henge
Mar 10, 2010, 16:47
It could be a livestock enclosure or perhaps a disk barrow though presumable not that far north.

Welcome btw.
tiompan
tiompan
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Re: Time Team Loch Migdale Henge
Mar 10, 2010, 17:16
juamei wrote:
It could be a livestock enclosure or perhaps a disk barrow though presumable not that far north.

Welcome btw.


Wessex archaeology described it as putative even at the time and the concensus now seems to be that it is not a henge despite TT and the some of the content below .There are plenty of hut circles /enclosures/cairns in the area .The entrance was in the east making it a class 1 if it was a henge but it is a bit small for that , hut circles entrances tend to be in the E-SE quadrant .
Hopefully there will be a monograph this year by Richard Bradley on henges in the north .
http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/14025/details/loch+migdale/
juamei
juamei
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Re: Time Team Loch Migdale Henge
Mar 10, 2010, 18:13
Its a hengiform monument aka we really don't know but it kinda looks like one. I like the start of the rcahms where it says:
"A well-preserved 'henge/barrow/cairn'" ie we don't know what it is...
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