Editing Arminghall (section)

==Arminghall Henge==
In 1929 a prehistoric [[timber circle]] and [[henge monument]] site was discovered 1½ miles (2½ km) northwest of Arminghall village by [[Gilbert Insall|Gilbert Insall VC]] who had been taking [[aerial photography|air photos]] of the area in search of new archaeological sites. Whilst flying at around 2,000 feet (600 m) he noticed [[cropmark]]s of a circular enclosure made of two concentric rings with a horseshoe of eight pit-like markings within it. The entire site was around 75 m in diameter. The site was visited a week later by [[O.G.S. Crawford]], who pronounced it to be the Norwich [[Woodhenge]] but it was not until 1935 that it was first excavated, by [[John Grahame Douglas Clark|Grahame Clark]]. His work established that two circular rings were ditches, the outer one 1.5 m deep and the inner one 2.3 m deep, with indications of a bank that once stood between them. The pits in the middle were [[posthole]]s for timbers that would have been almost 1 m in diameter. The site dates to the [[Neolithic]], with a radiocarbon date of 3650-2650 Cal BC (4440±150) from charcoal from a post-pit. The henge is orientated on the mid-winter sunset, which, when viewed from the henge, sets down the slope of nearby high ground, Chapel Hill.