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Bronze Age timber circle
Accession Number KILLM : 2007.1100 : LOAN
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Bronze Age timber circle found at Holme next the Sea beach and popularly known as 'Seahenge'. The fragmentary remains come from a timber circle 6.6 metres in diameter, comprising 55 closely fitting oak posts, each originally up to 3 metres high. At the centre of the circle was a great upturned tree stump. Scientific dating methods show that the circle was erected in the spring of 2049 BC
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New forms of field monuments appeared in the British landscape during the later Neolithic, after c3,200 BC. Known individually as ‘henges’, these round enclosures, each with a bank laying beyond an internal ditch, are found in low lying locations. Their function is still debated but may have related to their alignments with the heavenly cycles and in predicting the change of seasons. Seven henges are known in Norfolk, including a wooden example at Arminghall, south of Norwich. As time passed, into the era when metal was produced, with the start of the Bronze Age in c2,500 BC, yet more diverse forms of field monument developed across Britain. One such construction was identified at Holme-next-the-Sea in 1998.