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The Henge Monument of The Bull Ring, Dove Holes, Derbyshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

Leslie Alcock
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In March 1949, work was carried out at The Bull Ring, Dove Holes, Derbyshire, by members of the Oxford University Archaeological Society, as part of the general survey of ‘henge“ monuments, undertaken by Mr R. J. C. Atkinson. The site was surveyed and was found to be of the ‘double-entrance’ class of Henge Monument. No stone-holes were found, but it is known from an 18th century account that the monument once had a stone setting similar to that at Arbor Low, Derbyshire. Trenches revealed the form of the ditch and bank, but the dating evidence was confined to two fragments of pottery, one of them a rim sherd, probably related to Beaker fabric.

The Bull Ring lies just to the east of the church and school in the village of Dove Holes, three miles north-north-east of Buxton, Derbyshire (Grid reference 078783). Although it stands on a small knoll, just over the 1100 ft. contour, and at the very edge of the Derby-shire limestone plateau, it does not dominate the countryside.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 16 , 1950 , pp. 81 - 100
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1950

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page 81 note 1 ‘The Problem of the Henge Monuments,’ by Atkinson, R. J. C., Archaeological News Letter, December 1948, 8 Google Scholar.

page 81 note 2 Archaeologia, LVIII, pt. 2, 461 ff.Google Scholar

page 81 note 3 Pilkington, J., Present State of Derbyshire, II, 462 Google Scholar.

page 83 note 1 Turner, W., in The Leek Times, August 23rd, 1902 Google Scholar.

page 83 note 2 Atkinson (op. cit.) 7 includes The Bull Ring in the list of ‘single-entrance henges.’

page 85 note 1 Among the many people who have helped in the search, special mention should be made of Mr W. F. Grimes, who thinks the rim ‘likely to be a fragment of a … food-vessel (Abercromby's Type 3),’ and Professor C. F. C. Hawkes, who considers that both sherds are in the Beaker tradition.

page 86 note 1 On the attribution of ‘double-entrance henges’ to the Beaker people, see Atkinson, op. cit. 8 (where, however, ‘rusticated wares’ are assigned to the native neolithic tradition).

page 86 note 2 These have all been deposited in Buxton Museum.

page 86 note 3 Dr J. Wilfrid Jackson kindly identified these bones for me.

page 87 note 1 Discussion of recent finds in south Sweden has intentionally been omitted, since these will be fully dealt with in Dr C.-A. Althin's keenly awaited book. Publication is also pending of Dr Rust's very important work on Late Glacial Tent-rings in Schleswig-Holstein.

page 89 note 1 Simplified from Degerbol and Iversen, 1945, pl. VII.

page 89 note 2 Mannus Z., VII (1917), 233–40Google Scholar, taf. IV, 8.

page 90 note 1 Archiv. f. Anthrop., N.F. bd. XXI, 109–21Google Scholar, nos. 84–90.

page 93 note 1 Proc. Preh. Soc., 1949, 57 Google Scholar and fig. 2, no. 16; also ibid, 1950, 114 and fig. 5.

page 93 note 2 See Miss Caton-Thompson, G., Proc. Prehist. Soc., 1946, 112 Google Scholar, n. 3.

page 94 note 1 For details of this I have to thank Dr J. Troels-Smith and Herr K. Andersen.