Maelmin Henge

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Maelmin Henge is modern interpretation/reconstruction of a henge monument near the village of Milfield, Northumberland in the Till Valley.{{cite book |author=Burnham, Andy |year=2019 |title=The Old Stones of the North of England & Isle of Man: A field guide to megalithic and other prehistoric sites |place=London, UK |publisher=Watkins Publishing |isbn=978-1-78678-240-3 |oclc=1082256228 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1082256228}}{{cite book |author=Chessell, Antony |year=2014 |title=Breamish & Till : From source to tweed |isbn=978-1-291-58938-2 |place=Northumberland, UK |publisher=TillVAS |oclc=887099558 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/887099558}}

It was built in the spring of 2000.{{cite web |title=The Henge |website=maelmin.org.uk |url=https://www.maelmin.org.uk/index.php?page=the-henge |access-date=2020-06-06}}

The landscape in which the contemporary monument sits held a number of Neolithic and early Bronze Age henge monuments{{Cite book |author=Burl, Aubrey |year=2000 |title=The stone circles of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany |place=New Haven, CT |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=0-300-08347-5 |oclc=43083391 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43083391}}{{cite news |title=Till Valley, History Society |date=18 March 2018 |newspaper=Northumberland Gazette |lang=en |url=https://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/till-valley-history-society-323205 |access-date=2020-06-06 |quote=Till Valley Archaeological Society migrated to the Cheviot Centre in Wooler for a well attended meeting on February 7.}} around 5,000 years ago and the new monument is based on excavations of one of these,{{cite web |editor=Simpson, David |others={{circa|1991~2017}} |title=Till and Tweed: Ford, Etal, Milfield, and Norham |website=England's North East |id=post 7742 |url=https://englandsnortheast.co.uk/ford-etal-milfield/ |access-date=2020-06-06 |lang=en-GB}} the site of which is close by.{{cite news |title=Milfield Henge: An ancient monument reconstructed |date=2016-11-22 |website=Huffington Post |lang=en |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/milfield-henge-an-ancient_b_13143722 |access-date=2020-06-06}}{{cite web |author=Williams, Howard |title=Maelmin |date=June 2014 |website=The past in its place |publisher=University of Exeter |url=http://pastplace.exeter.ac.uk/2014/06/maelmin/ |access-date=2020-06-06 |lang=en-GB}}

The monument was created by Clive Waddington,{{cite book |author1=Passmore, David Glynn |author2=Waddington, Clive |author3=Bayliss, Alexandra |year=2009 |title=Managing archaeological landscapes in Northumberland : Till Tweed studies |volume=1 |place=Oxford, UK |publisher=Oxbow Books |edition=e‑Book |isbn=978-1-78297-310-2 |oclc=880878623 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/880878623}} who has written a guide to interpret it.{{cite web |last=Williams, Howard |date=September 2014 |title=Maelmin afterlives |website=The past in its place |publisher=University of Exeter |lang=en-GB |url=http://pastplace.exeter.ac.uk/2014/09/maelmin-afterlives/ |access-date=2020-06-06}}{{cite book |last=Edwards |first=Benjamin |year=2009 |title=Pits and the architecture of deposition narratives of social practice in the neolithic of North-East England |publisher=Durham University |location=Durham, UK}}