Excavation of Yarnbury Henge (N York, England) in June 2014 by the University of Bradford and UWHG.
The Historic England scheduling describe this late Neolithic monument as: “The well preserved henge monument at Yarnbury is situated on a slight south east facing gradient 400m north east of Mire House. It includes a circular ditch with an external bank and entrance causeway on the south east side. The central enclosure has an approximate diameter of 20m by 22m with the surrounding rock cut ditch 3.5m wide and 0.25m deep. The outer turf covered stony bank is 3m-4m wide with a maximum height of 0.5m. The single clearly defined causeway entrance has a width of approximately 2m. An area about 10m in diameter to the north of the entrance has been destroyed by modern quarrying; this has sectioned the bank exposing its earth and stone structure. There is a slight mutilation to the bank and ditch about 2m to the west of the entrance and the entrance causeway itself has sustained damage on its south side.”
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