Julian Cope presents Head Heritage

I don't buy the Thom idea or this one . .
Some of the earliest timber monuments were huge e.g. Hindwell had a circumference of 1.4 miles ,that is prairie farming even by todays standards . A few sites with timber circles have been excavated but there is no indication from palynology or the old ground surface of cereal farming . Quite often timber circles are found in concentric rings Woodhenge , Sanctuary , Durrington , Stanton Drew etc that doesn't seem to fit with a marking out of the vortex . There is also the possibility that during the period when timber circles were being built cereal farming was not being practiced to anything like the extent that was believed ,granaries, storage pits and, field systems are absent and unknown before the Middle Bronze Age .Studies show that dental caries associated with cereal consumption were uncommon in the period and isotope analysis shows that diets were higher in animal protein .
Punters marking out enclosures as they had always done and continued to do , usually by eye seems more likely to me .