Arminghall is a village in the English county of Norfolk, around three miles south east of Norwich. Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Religion... For alternative meanings see: Norfolk (disambiguation) Norfolk (pronounced NOR-fk) is a low-lying county in East Anglia in the east of southern England. ... Norwich (pronounced variously Norritch or Norridge) is a city in East Anglia, in Eastern England, the regional administrative centre and county town of Norfolk. ...

In 1929 a prehistoric timber circle and henge monument site was discovered near the 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 (600m) he noticed cropmarks of a circular enclosure made of two concentric rings with a horseshoe of eight pit-like markings within in. The entire site was around 75m in diameter. 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... In archaeology, a timber circle is a circular arrangement of wooden posts. ... Archaeologists use the term henge monument to describe a site where a henge is combined with other features such as stone circles, standing stones, barrows, cairns or timber circles. ... Aerial photography is the taking of photographs from above with a camera mounted on an aircraft, balloon, rocket, kite or similar vehicle. ... Cropmarks or Crop marks are a form of archaeological feature visible from the air. ...

The site was visited by O. G. S. Crawford a week later who pronounced it to be the Norwich Woodhenge but it was not until 1935 that it was first excavated, by Grahame Clark. Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford (1886 - November 28, 1957) was a pioneer in the use of aerial photographs for deepening archaelogical understanding of the landscape. ... This article concerns Woodhenge in England. ... 1935 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sir John Grahame Douglas Clark (28 July 1907–12 September 1995) was a British archaeologist most notable for his work on the Mesolithic and his theories on palaeoeconomy. ...

His work established that two circular rings were ditches, the outer one 1.5m deep and the inner one 2.3m 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 1m 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. In archaeology a posthole is a cut feature used to hold a surface timber or stone. ... The Neolithic, (Greek neos=new, lithos=stone, or New Stone Age) was a period in the development of human technology that is traditionally the last part of the Stone Age. ...