Arminghall

Arminghall

Arminghall is a small village in the English county of Norfolk, around three miles (five kilometres) southeast of Norwich in the parish of Bixley. Most of the houses in the village are located close to the church, which lies just west of the B1332 road from Norwich to Poringland. Syfer Technology, an electronic components manufacturer, is based at Old Stoke Road, close to the River Tas. First Eastern Counties' 58 Service provides an hourly bus into Norwich via Trowse and out to Poringland, Brooke and Bungay. [http://www.firstgroup.com/ukbus/easterncounties/easterncounties/timetables/timetable.php?day=1&source_id=2&service=58/58A&routeid=1240321&operator=22&source=sp Timetable]

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 who had been taking air photos of the area in search of new archaeological sites. Whilst flying at around 2,000 feet (600 m) he noticed cropmarks 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 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 postholes 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.

External links

* [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/arminghall/arminghall.htm Arminghall Church]
* [http://www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/places/a/arminghall/white1883.shtml Arminghall] on Genuki
* [http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/3001/arminghall_henge.html Arminghall Henge on The Modern Antiquarian]
* [http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=4797 Arminghall Henge on the Megalithic Portal]
* [http://www.sys.uea.ac.uk/Research/researchareas/JWMP/CAA2003.pdf Arminghall Henge in Virtual Reality]
* [http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/poemsbycameronself/Arminghall%20Man.html Arminghall Man - poem by Cameron Self]
* [http://www.syfer.com/Homepage_1.aspx?id=1:27288 Syfer Technology, Arminghall]


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