The Thornborough Henges: drone footage shows enormous ancient burial site in North Yorkshire

Two enormous ancient monuments, part of a complex regarded as the Stonehenge of the north, have been given to the nation and will come off England’s heritage at-risk register.
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The Thornborough Henges, near Ripon in North Yorkshire, are three huge, human-made, enclosed earth circles. Each is more than 200 metres in diameter and they date from 3500BC to 2500BC, making them late neolithic/early bronze age monuments. Historic England and English Heritage announced, after years of concern, that they had secured the future of two of the henges and parts of the surrounding landscape. English Heritage will manage the site.

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