Arbor Low

The bank and ditch of the henge, as well as its two entrances, were probably established in the Late Neolithic period, with the stones added later, sometime before 2000 BCE. The site seems to have been in use until the Bronze Age, when the outer bank was reconstructed so that the round barrow could be erected. Both the earthworks and the stoneworks are probably later than the nearby Gib Hill.

The monument includes about 50 large limestone blocks, quarried from a local site, which form an egg-shaped circle. There were probably 41–43 stones originally, but some are now in fragments. In the centre of the circle lie at least six smaller blocks known as the cove, originally believed to have been set in a rectangle. The stones are surrounded by an earth bank, approximately 90 by at the outside edges and 2 m high, with an interior ditch about 2 metres deep and 7 to wide. There are two causeway entrances breaching both the bank and ditch; a north-west entrance 9 m wide, and a south-east entrance 6 m wide. The inner bank encloses an area of 52 by. Few henge monuments in the British Isles…