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Norfolk Wood Rings

by Paul
(Leeds)

..Archaeologists say that 'Seahenge' should never have been called a henge, because it isn't. A henge is an earth ditch and bank, usually circular.

..Stonehenge was originally just an earth ditch and bank, so there IS a henge at Stonehenge, but not in Norfolk.

..The nearest name to the two Wood Rings on the coast in Norfolk is Holme-next-the-Sea. ..Holme is an old English name for Holme-Oak, or Holly Oak; a Mediterranean Coastal Oak that has lower leaves resembling Holly Tree leaves, and source of the Holme-Oak name, and designed as a deterrent from grazing animals eating them.

..The next nearest name to the two North West Norfolk Wood Rings is Ringstead; and along the Roman Road line and Peddar's Way Walk, path, there's Fring.

..And so in Norfolk there are over a dozen -ring names, and a few in Suffolk.

..A man spoken to, who was born in nearby Castle Acre, said he played with his friends in a circle of dips in the ground next to a River; that he was certain that this was once a Wood Ring; and also that the Wood Rings in Norfolk were called Rings, and not Circles, and certainly not Henges.

..There is a zig-zag line of -ring names including Sheringham, that needs an OS Map to see; in a generally South Western direction inland from the coastal Sheringham.

..And so of course there is Sandringham - the Rings in the Sand?? / Sand Rings??

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