Drove Cottage Henge
Drove Cottage Henge is a scheduled monument in the Priddy parish of Somerset, England. It is located north of Drove Cottage. The site is a ceremonial Neolithic location. Since this henge is one of only around 80 henges throughout England, it is considered to be nationally important.
Description
Drove Cottage Henge is situated in a valley. The bank circumscribing the henge is about thick and high, with a diameter of around when measuring from the outsides of the banks. Just inside this bank is a ditch wide and deep, enclosing a circular central area about in diameter. In the northern portion of this central area is a low-lying mound in front of the exit, which appears as a break in the outside bank.Jodie Lewis noted in 2005 that "Examples of southerly and north-north-westerly orientations, apropos Stockwood and Hunter's Lodge, are documented at other Class I henge sites, but are not common". Harding and Lee in 1987 said of it "HUNTERS LODGE, Priddy ST 559 498: Sub-oval enclosure, surviving as an earthwork, situated at the head of a shallow valley."
This whole site has become hard to see because repeated ploughing has heavily damaged the archaeological site, including the turf cover.