Wilsford Henge

Wilsford Henge is the site of a Neolithic henge, west of the village of Wilsford, Wiltshire in the United Kingdom [1]. The monument lies within the Vale of Pewsey, a short distance south of the large henge known as Marden Henge [1]. Wilsford Henge is a broad irregular circular ditch visible only as a cropmark on aerial photographs, on a gently sloping spur of land about 500m south of the River Avon [1]. The internal diameter of the enclosure is around 43 metres and the external diameter is around 62 metres [1]. There is an entrance, 12 metres wide, which faces northeast in the direction of the river [1]. An interior circle of possible post-hole pits has been confirmed by geophysical survey [1]. The site was included in a three-year investigation of the Pewsey Vale, beginning in 2015, by the Department of Archaeology at the University of Reading [1]. Among the discoveries in the 2015 excavations was an early Bronze Age crouched burial of an adolescent child which included sherds of beaker pottery and a collection of necklace beads [1].