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Re-excavating Arminghall Henge: a burnt timber circle from prehistoric Norfolk
Last September, an excavation at Arminghall Henge in Norfolk reopened a trench first dug by Grahame Clark almost a century earlier – revealing a glimpse of a large timber monument that may have met a fiery end. Andy Hutcheson, Matt Brudenell, and Mark Knight report.
On a clear day in June 1929, Wing Commander Gilbert Insall was flying over Caistor St Edmund Roman town in Norfolk (Venta Icenorum; see CA 270) when he spotted cropmarks near the confluence of the rivers Tas and Yare. Archaeological interest in Caistor and its environs was already intense thanks to the remarkable photographs of cropmarks that had been taken within the town’s walls during the dry summer of 1928 (reported on by Mortimer Wheeler in the June 1929 edition of Antiquity), but these new markings would prove to be much older.
Excavating the inner ditch of Arminghall Henge in Norfolk, last September.
Insall was a hero of the First World War, having been awarded the Victoria C
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