Seahenge

  • Seahenge, also known as Holme I, was a ring of 55 oak timbers standing 10 feet (3m) high and surrounding an upturned tree root located in the shifting sands at Holme-by-the-sea in Norfolk.
  • It has been removed and is now preserved in the Lynn Museum in Norfolk. Its purpose is unknown.

Lynn Museum, Seahenge

  • The Lynn Museum in King’s Lynn. Norfolk, has a reconstruction on display consisting of half of the original timbers and the stump of Seahenge.
  • Seahenge was carbon dated to 2049 BCE, making it over 4,000 years old.
  • A second and larger ring of timbers called Holme II, was located 330 feet (100m) away, which also dates to 2049 CE, but this has not been excavated.

 

Lynn Museum, King’s Lynn

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