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Four New Henge Monuments. 57 Iii. and Northumberland FOU W HENGRNE E 7 5 MONUMENTS. III. FOUHENGW RNE E MONUMENT SCOTLANN I S D AND NORTHUMBERLAND. ATKINSONC . J B. YR , M.A., F.S.A., F.S.A.ScoT. foue Th r monuments described belo recene war t addition clase th f so o s t prehistoric sacred sites knowe namth f "hengy o enb e monuments,f o " which forty examples are now known in England and Scotland. Though these monuments vary considerabl e detailth f n theiyi o s r plans, certain features are common to nearly all of them. The chief of these is the presence of an enclosing earthwork, in which the bank normally lies outside the ditch; accesenclosee th o st d area, whic circulas hi nearlr gives ro i , ynso eithey b r a single entrance-gap, or by two such gaps facing each other from opposite sides of the site. The central area may contain a circular setting of standing- stone , exceptionallyor s rina , timbef go r f rituaposto r o r o se l pitson r o , more burials. In many sites no visible feature now remains within the earthwork.1 The henge monuments may conveniently be divided into two classes, numbee e basioth n th f o sf entrances o r ; Clas sI comprise s those witha single entrance, and Class II those with two. The finds from excavated sites of both classes suggest that this division is a real one. Pottery and other artefacts from monuments of Class I belong, with few exceptions, to e non-Westerth n Neolithic culture f Britaino s ; whil e findeth s from sites of Class II point to an association with the Beaker peoples, and particularly thao t t grou thef po m represente beakery db Typf so . eA The henge monuments hitherto recognised in Scotland all belong to Class II. The circles of Stennis 2 and Brodgar 3 in Orkney have not been examined, but excavations have been carried out at the three remaining sites, Broomend of Crichie 4 (Aberdeenshire), Ballymeanoch B (Argyllshire), and Cairnpapple 6 (West Lothian). It is significant that the only two beakers of Type A so far recorded in Scotland come from Ballymeanoch and Cairnpapple respectively. 1 For a general discussion of henge monuments, see Atkinson, Piggott and Sandars, Excavations at Dorchester, Oxon., vol . (Ashmoleai . n Museum, Oxford, 1951) . 81-107pp , . 2 R.C.A.M. Orkney, vol. ii. (1946), p. 302, no. 876, with refs. 3 Ibid., p. 299, no. 875, with refs. 4 Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., vols. xviii. (1884), p. 319; liv. (1920), p. 160. 5 Ibid., vols. vi. (1878) . 348p , ; Ixv. (1931) . 278p , . • Ibid., vol. Ixxxii. (1948), p. 68. 58 PROCEEDING SE SOCIETYOTH F , 1949-50. Of the four new discoveries described below, two are of Class II and two of Class I. The latter are the first monuments of this type to be found in Scotland, and extend the distribution of the class far to the north of its previous limit at Mayburgh,1 near Penrith, Cumberland. CLAS. I S Balfarg, Markinch, Fifeshire (NO(37)/281032). This site was discovered from air-photographs by Dr K. A. Steer, and was surveyed by the writer in November 1950. It is associated with two standing-stones, already recorde e Royath y lb d Commissio Ancienn o n t Monuments (Scotland), which appear to be the remains of a stone setting originally formin gmonumente parth f o t 2 . site eTh lieleven o s l groun fee0 a heigh 32 t da f abov o t e sea-level, about 1^ miles north-west of Markinch, and some 800 feet west-south-west fare o th fBalfargf m o air-photogrape Th . h showed about two-thirde th f so circumference of a circular ditch, with an entrance-gap on the north-west positioe sideTh .entrance this f endth no it st f sa o ditc ed hweran e con- firme probing y south-wese db th n I . t secto t visiblditce e no th rth s hn i e o photograph, and has evidently been eaten away by a gully which here cuts back into the plateau upon which the site stands (fig. 1). cleas i t I r tha bana t k originally stood outsid ditche eth , thougs ha t hi now been almost entirely flattene y cultivationb d e contoureTh . d plan (fig. 1) shows traces of it surviving at a height of 6 to 8 inches on the north circlee easth d originaf s an o it t; l diameter, cres cresto t , would have been about 280 feet. The two standing-stones are of undressed sandstone, and lie some 45 feet apart . e north-westh Tha n o tfee 6 inche7 s ti t s high e otheth , fee5 r t 3 inches; both are roughly trapezoid in section. It seems likely from their relatio ditce th hentranceno e t tha th forme e n ti th pai a t f o rse - e stonon s ei lattee th survivoe gapd rth an ,rin a f f stonego ro t som sse fee 0 e2 t within ditce concentrid th han thicf I wit shypotheticas . stonit h it d ean l neighbour e nortth ho t wer t symmetricallse e y with respece entranceth o t te th , original circle would have had 10 or 11 stones, and a diameter of about 120 feet. The presence of flanking stones on the entrance-causeway is unusual, but is recorde hengo tw et d a monument Clasf so , MayburgsI h (Cumberlandd )an Maumbury Rings 3 (Dorset), and from one of Class II, King Arthur's Round Table 4 (Cumberland). 1 Proc. Prehist. Soc., vol . (1936) wit, ii . 44 h . refsp , . R.C.A.M. fife, Kinross and Clackmannan (1933), p. 209, no. 420. 2 Antiquity, vol. xiii. (1939), p. 155. 3 Trans. Cumb. West.d an Ant. Arch.d an Soc., n.s., vol. xl. (1940) . 169p , . 4 FOUW HENGRNE E MONUMENTS. 59 HENGE MONUMENT AT BALFARG. FIFESHIRE Pig . Pla1 . hengf no e monumen t Balfarga t , Markinch, Fifeshire. Contour t verticasa l intervalf so inches3 . Crop mark plotted from air-photograph stippledd san standine Th . g stone showe sar n i n solid black. Overhowden, Oxton, Berwickshire (NT(36)/487524). This monumen s lonha tg been recorded e Royath y b l, Commission 1 Ordnance th n o d e an Survey mapssuggestioe forta Th s a ,. n tha t mighti t be a henge monument is due to Professor and Mrs Piggott. The site was visite Novemben di r survea 1949 d triad an ,yan l excavations were carried out by the writer in May 1950. 1 R.C.A.M. Berwickshire. 30 . no (1915) , 15 . p , 60 PROCEEDING E SOCIETYTH F O S , 1949-50. The monument stands at a height of about 970 feet above sea-level on the west side of the Lauder valley, immediately to the west of the farm of HENGE MONUMENT AT OVERHOWDEN, BERWICKSHIRE Fig . Pla2 . hengf no e monumen t Overhowdena t , Oxton, Berwickshire. Contourt sa vertical intervals of 1 foot. Overhowden e grounth ; d here slopes east-north-east wit ha gradien f o t positioe Th . littls ni abou12 e n i e sitinsuite 1 fortta th r f go d,fo having no natura t unparallelel no defence s i t bu , d among henge monumentn i s England. FOUHENGW RNE E MONUMENTS. 61 The visible remains consist of a nearly circular bank, much flattened by cultivation, with a mean diameter, crest to crest, of 320 feet; its present maximum height is less than 1 foot. Within the bank is a broad shallow depression markin e positio e gsilteth th f de north-wesno th ditch n O . t side ban ditcd eth brokee kan har well-markea y nb d entrance-gap some 35 feet wide (bearing from the centre 306°). On the north-east side, at the lowest e circumferencpointh f o t ther, e secona C) (fig s , ei 2 . d e breath n ki bank; probing showed that correspondinthero n s ei g causeway acrose sth ditch, and the gap is probably to be explained as a means of draining away surface water which would otherwise accumulate abov e earthworeth t ka this point. Pig. 3. Section of ditch of henge monument at Overhowden and, below, profil ditcf eo bankd han . south-easOe nth t side, wher earthwore eth approaches ki fare th m y db track, the bank had been almost completely worn away. The ditch, how- ever, appear a continuou s a s sair-photographe marth n ko s beeha n d an , traced by probing. The purpose of the trial cutting (fig. 2, A) was to locate and determine the section of the ditch, and its relation to the bank. The section exposed is shown in fig. 3. The ditch is cut in shale rock, which, on undisturbed ground hers i , inchee8 onlo t ys6 beneat surfacee hth widts It deptd . han h were 12 feet and 4 feet respectively; the bottom was wide and almost flat. The silting was normal, consisting of rock rubble at the bottom, with a layer of fine-grained rain-wash above, containing at one point a small spread of charcoal. This was covered by a deep layer of stony soil, becoming finer towards the surface. The only unusual feature of the ditch was the presence on its outer edge of a narrow, steep-sided, flat-bottomed gully, 18 inches wide and deep. It 62 PROCEEDING S E SOCIETYOTH F , 1949-50.
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