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Norfolk museum to install ancient timberA Norfolk museum is to close to the public for about four months while the central stump of a Bronze Age oak circle known as Seahenge is installed. The Lynn Museum in King's Lynn has recorded a large increase in visitors since opening a gallery in 2008 devoted to the 55 outer timbers of the circle... continues... |
Posted by moss12th January 2010ce |
Seahenge on displayFrom Lynn News: "VISITORS will be taken back in time 4,000 years when (King's) Lynn Museum re-opens to the public on Tuesday (1st April) after its £1.2 million redevelopment... continues... |
Posted by baza31st March 2008ce Edited 13th May 2008ce |
More money for Sea Henge museum.. extra features are now under discussion following news of the £65,000 grant, part of a national £4m payout for museum improvements by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Wolfson Foundation... continues... |
Posted by Rhiannon17th August 2006ce Edited 18th August 2006ce |
Work to start soon on Lynn MuseumWork on a £1 million revamp for Lynn museum is due to start in July. The project has been funded with £778,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund, £125,000 from Norfolk County Council and donations from other sources... continues... |
Posted by Rhiannon 19th May 2005ce Edited 19th May 2005ce |
Seahenge Focal Point of Museum RevampNorfolk's famous Bronze Age timber circle should finally go on public show in 2007. A display of part of Seahenge, which in 1999 was controversially dug up from the shoreline at Holme, near Hunstanton, will form the focal point of a major redevelopment of Lynn Museum at King's Lynn... continues... |
Posted by stubob20th December 2004ce Edited 20th December 2004ce |
More Seahenge secrets revealedA second timber circle, 300 years older, was found near Seahenge. Instead of being composed of plain wooden posts, parts of it could have been decorated with carvings. The hypothesis is linked to the discovery of a carved wooden figure called the 'Dagenham Idol' (pictured on the website)... continues... |
Posted by Rhiannon 16th August 2004ce Edited 28th April 2005ce |
How Seahenge Will Go On ShowEDP24 November 19, 2003 09:41 Yesterday, West Norfolk area museums officer Robin Handley explained that about half the original circle would be displayed and gave an insight into what visitors had in store... continues... |
Posted by Rhiannon 19th November 2003ce Edited 19th November 2003ce |
More Details On Kings Lynn Museum ProgressHolme Henge pushes up museum costs 07 October 2003 Lynn News.co.uk http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/ViewArticle2... continues... |
Posted by Rhiannon 7th October 2003ce Edited 19th November 2003ce |
Funding Bid Put In For Seahenge Home In King's LynnMuseum chiefs are awaiting the outcome of a funding bid which could pave the way for Seahenge to go on public display in West Norfolk. Norfolk's museums and archaeology service has submitted a £900,000 bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund towards the redevelopment of Lynn Museum at King's Lynn... continues... |
Posted by Rhiannon 1st October 2003ce Edited 1st October 2003ce |
Seahenge Display By 2005 (Well Bits Of It)August 5, 2003 06:30 - from the EDP24 site Seahenge could go on public display for the first time in the summer of 2005, it emerged last night. The future of the 4000-year-old Bronze Age timber circle has been the subject of fierce debate since its controversial excavation from the beach at Holme, near Hunstanton, in 1999... continues... |
Posted by Rhiannon 5th August 2003ce Edited 1st October 2003ce |
Permanent Home Plan for Seahengehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/3011098.stm A home for the ancient timber circle is planned in King's Lynn. Proposals to put the ancient Seahenge timber circle on display in Norfolk have been put forward... continues... |
Posted by Rhiannon 23rd June 2003ce Edited 23rd June 2003ce |
Seahenge Roadshow Set To Go On Tourhttp://www.edp24.co.uk/content/News/story.asp?datetime=11+Feb+2003+20% A new exhibition charting the incredible story of Norfolk's Seahenge is set to hit the road this summer... continues... |
Posted by phil 11th February 2003ce Edited 19th November 2003ce |
Sea Henge stays on dry land(from http://www.northcoastal.freeserve.co.uk/holme_beach... continues... |
Posted by juamei7th December 2001ce |
Update 2Thanks again to Kevin for providing us with this update on Sea Henge... It's official. Norfolk's Sea Henge is to be returned to the waves. Here is a couple of paragraphs from a recent addition of the local rag "The Lynn News and Advertiser"... continues... |
Posted by JoAnne Wilder 27th November 2000ce |
UpdateThanks to Kevin for supplying the following update and thoughts on Sea Henge... Oh dear.. looks like a black day for the desecration brigade. It appears that no one wants to give a home to the displaced timbers of Sea Henge... continues... |
Posted by JoAnne Wilder 7th October 2000ce Edited 19th November 2003ce |
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I have to admit my main reason for visiting Flag Fen was to reacquaint myself with the timbers I had last seen on a cold windswept beach near Hunstanton 4 years ago. At the time I had dragged along the girlfriend of the time and her 2 kids to watch a ring of wooden posts and a central trunk very slowly emerge from the water – I don't think they were ever conned by the promise of 'a day at the seaside' again after that. For some reason I'd left it a long time before going to see the remains of the circle in their wooden tanks, perhaps I needed to put some distance between them being there on the beach and being here at Flag Fen. Francis Pryor's book had reawoken my memories and brought back the feelings of that day – I'm not going to go into the rights and wrongs of the subject, I think the issues were well covered in the Forum posts of the time. Walking into the large open fronted barn was a strange experience. The central timber is placed at the end and it was almost like walking into some kind of hallowed hall with the trunk forming an alter as its focal point. The smaller split timbers that made up the continuous circle were laid out under the water, some were in with the trunk while others were in a separate tank. The view of the timbers was difficult due to the layer of green pond slime that seemed to be growing on the top of the water in one tank, I presume there is a reason why the water is not changed regularly. I was almost tempted to put my had below the water to touch the posts, but didn't, partly because I wouldn't want to cause any damage to the 4050 year old wood and partly because it just didn't seem right – disrespectful somehow. I spent quite a while in the barn and there was nobody else around. While I was there something whizzed silently above my head, I looked up to see a young swallow on the wooden beams of the barn being fed by it's parent before the adult flew off again to gather more insects for the youngster. I was struck by the whole 'life, death, rebirth' thing, the timbers had grown, been felled, shaped, moved to a sacred place near the coast, erected and become the centre of ceremony, abandoned, covered in rising water and then peat, been forgotten about, uncovered by the sea and returned to the land of the living, become again the centre of attention, been dug up and brought here awaiting the next part of their journey. The swallow had been born in Britain, grown up then flown to Africa, overwintered there and then returned to Britain to raise it's own offspring who would repeat the cycle. Somehow I felt that seeing the timbers again had completed the cycle for me too in some way that I can't explain. A sad but quite moving experience. |
Posted by Chris Collyer29th June 2003ce |
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[Holme Beach 10/12/02] So I came up here with a friend to see if any of the other structures were visible. And in some words, not really. However reading through pages about the place inc. photos, I see we were about half a mile west of where it was found.. doh. All was not lost as we did see some large chunks of timber, looking as weathered as the seahenge timbers. They were seemingly carved in a way that made them look like stones from a stonecircle, but I may just have been overly hoping. A word of warning, its very very cold on this beach in December when the wind picks up. |
Posted by juamei 12th December 2002ce Edited 12th December 2002ce |
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Visited 24th July 2002: We went to Flag Fen without realising that the Sea Henge timbers were in storage there. I'm certain that the experience was nowhere near as magical as visiting the site in it's original location, but I still got over excited by the experience. Of course, the battery ran out on the digital camera, so I had a go with the SLR. The results aren't fantastic, but I thought I'd post them up anyway. It was good to see the timbers (I missed out on seeing them in situ) but sad to see them in the wrong place. |
Posted by Kammer13th November 2002ce Edited 5th August 2003ce |
| There are quite a few more further out to sea. Concensus is that they could well be foundations of burial mounds. |
Posted by greentara 12th October 2001ce Edited 5th August 2003ce |
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Sea Henge Stolen from the mud Time team....remember that? Put it back please. |
Posted by mindweed 20th April 2002ce Edited 5th August 2003ce |
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Channel FourA couple of pictures of the henge in situ, from the infamous Time Team programme, and useful links to other relevant webpages. |
Posted by Rhiannon 21st July 2007ce |
ArchaeopticsA laser scan of one of the timbers |
Posted by baza 6th August 2002ce Edited 2nd September 2009ce |
North Coastal - Holme BeachA summary including quotes of the recent history of the site. Well constructed and up to date. |
Posted by juamei 7th December 2001ce |
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