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Museum in Norfolk. An exhibition of part of the Bronze Age timber circle, Seahenge, is at the centre of a £1m redevelopment of King's Lynn Museum.

The story of West Norfolk people from prehistoric times.

Address: Old Market Street, PE30 1NL
Phone: 01553 775001

More at their Web Site We have photos of Seahenge in situ, including webcam images of the protest at the excavation here.

Note: Seahenge stump arrives in King's Lynn museum, see latest comment. As a reminder of the controversy surrounding its extraction, see the archived webcam images in our gallery.
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Information on Seahenge from Norfolk Museums by Andy B on Saturday, 06 January 2018
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Information on Seahenge from Norfolk Museums:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140508061535/http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/Research/Collections/Archaeology_Collections/Seahenge/index.htm

Information sheet:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170903162251/http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/view/NCC095944

The scientific paper detailing the findings of the excavations on 'Seahenge' and the subsequent research programme was published in the
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society VOLUME 69, 2003

The Survey and Excavation of a Bronze Age Timber Circle at Holme-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, 1998–9 by Mark Brennand & Maisie Taylor

In 1998 a circle of timber posts within the intertidal zone on the north Norfolk coast was brought to the attention of the Norfolk County Council Archaeological Service. A subsequent programme of archaeological recording and dating revealed that the structure was constructed in the spring or early summer of 2049 BC, during the Early Bronze Age. Because of the perceived threat of damage and erosion from the sea a rescue excavation was undertaken during the summer months of 1999. The structure was entirely excavated, involving the removal of the timbers and a programme of stratigraphic recording and environmental analysis. A survey was also undertaken within the environs of the site which has identified further timber structures dating from the Bronze Age. Detailed examination of the timber from the circle has produced a wealth of unexpected information which has added greatly to our understanding of Early Bronze Age woodworking, organisation of labour and the layout and construction of timber ritual monuments.
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Re: Kings Lynn Museum by Anonymous on Monday, 14 May 2012
the museum incidently, rather than the google street view, is directly next to the bus stop, most excellent for the coasthopper to Holne, and a short walk from the railway station, Kings Lynn, Cambridge, London Kings Cross, twenty quid and about two hours travel.

What one thinks of the display is another matter, and yet another matter is that another sea henge has popped up nearby, and been left in situ.
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Re: Grant puts Seahenge in the spotlight by Anonymous on Monday, 14 May 2012
Sea Henge, being neither sea nor henge, is a words and things thing, but never the less, the museum is now open. In addition, there is Pryor. Pryor is a bibliography matter for he deals with other places than Seahenge, which is really only a wrapper.
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Re: Seahenge stump arrives in Lynn by Anonymous on Thursday, 29 April 2010
Nice that they moved it to preserve it, Just wondering if the original site was considered as hallowed ground, and if so, some of the granted money should have been used to set markers where the original trees were set.
Also since only half of the original timbers are being used for display, what happens to the rest of them ???
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Re: Seahenge stump arrives in Lynn by Runemage on Wednesday, 28 April 2010
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"But while the purpose of Seahenge's central stump remains unknown, scientists studying its ring of timbers have discovered ancient society in Norfolk was far more advanced than had previously been believed."

Found some chainsaw marks, did they ;-)
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Seahenge stump arrives in Lynn by Andy B on Wednesday, 28 April 2010
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Four thousand years after our ancestors built a timber circle on what is now Holme Beach, the final part of the monument was this morning lifted into what should be its final resting place.

A small crowd gathered in King's Lynn Bus Station in the lazy Sunday morning sunshine as the glass front of Lynn Museum was removed and the giant oak stump was painstakingly manoeuvred into its new home.

Museum officials held their breath as the carefully wrapped one and a half tonne stump was gradually rolled off a special van.

The completed Seahenge display will go on show this summer inside a replica of its original setting.

Controversy surrounded the decision to excavate the 4,000-year-old monument after it was discovered late in 1998.

But while the purpose of Seahenge's central stump remains unknown, scientists studying its ring of timbers have discovered ancient society in Norfolk was far more advanced than had previously been believed.

More than 20,000 visitors a year have been to see the oak posts since they went on show in a new £1.6m gallery at Lynn Museum two years ago.

Before going on display, the Portsmouth-based Mary Rose Trust spent almost a decade preserving the timbers, using similar techniques to those employed to preserve Henry VIII's warship the Mary Rose. Due to its size, the 8ft high central stump took a further two years to conserve.

Area museums officer Robin Hanley said like the smaller timbers, the stump displayed marks made by individual axes when it was built on the edge of what was originally forest.

“It's great to see the stump being reunited with the remainder of the timber circle after all these years they're been apart and great to see the timbers back together in West Norfolk,” said Dr Hanley

“We've been extremely pleased with the response to the displays, a lot of people have been inspired by the preservation of the timbers and have enjoyed being able to see them in such detail.

“To be able to get so close to 4,000-year-old timbers and see individual axe marks left by Bronze Age axes is extraordinary.”

Scientists using carbon and tree ring dating estimate Seahenge was built in the spring of 2049BC. It is believed to be the only example of its kind ever found. Its timbers were preserved by peat which encased them beneath the sands until its outline was revealed by a storm.

Dr Hanley said: “It has been a complex military style operation. It was nice to see people here for what is quite a momentous moment.”

Seahenge enthusiast Christine Von Allwoderden, from North Wootton, came into the town to see the stump arrive.

She said: “How exciting it must have been when it was found. I am very interested in the history of it. I do think it's fantastic for King's Lynn and fantastic for the museum”

She added that although she thought it was good for King's Lynn to have the timber circle in the museum, she thought it should still be at Holme.

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http://www.edp24.co.uk/content/edp24/news/story.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&category=News&tBrand=EDPOnline&tCategory=xDefault&itemid=NOED18%20Apr%202010%2011%3A12%3A29%3A680
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Seahenge set to be complete for the first time in 10 years by Andy B on Saturday, 16 January 2010
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An iconic ancient monument uncovered by the tides on a Norfolk beach will soon be complete for the first time in a decade.

Scientists have been studying and preserving the Seahenge timber circle since it was excavated at Holme, near Hunstanton, in early 1999.

There were protests after archaeologists decided to remove the upturned oak stump and ring of 55 posts from the sands.

But the 4000-year-old structure shed new light on how our ancestors lived, showing Bronze Age society was more advanced than had previously been believed.

Thousands have been to see the timbers, which went on show two years ago at King's Lynn Museum. Experts had spent nearly a decade drying out the posts and immersing them in special wax.

But the much larger central stump - an upturned tree which may have formed an altar - took a further two years to be preserved by maritime archaeologists at the Mary Rose Trust, in Portsmouth.

Now the stump is ready to be installed at the centre of the timber circle. Lynn Museum will close for four months [again! - MegP Ed] from January 30 to allow the work to take place.

Derrick Murphy, Norfolk's cabinet member for cultural services, said: “Why our ancestors built Seahenge remains a mystery, yet we can state categorically that it is one of the most significant historical discoveries ever to be found in Britain.

“The installation of the central stump within the gallery at the Lynn Museum marks a fitting end to this chapter of the story of Seahenge. We are certain that the exciting display of this unique find will be of huge interest to both local people and visitors to the area.”

Following a major redevelopment, the Lynn Museum reopened to the public in April 2008, with a new gallery devoted to Seahenge. Since then thousands of visitors have flocked to view the timbers.

Archaeologists at Flag Fen, near Peterborough, dated the stump to the spring of 2049BC. Axe marks in the trunk showed metal tools were far more common than had previously been believed, while the number of people involved in building the circle showed society was more organised than had been thought.

The museum will re-open in early summer. During part of the closure, the nearby Town House Museum will be open and will offer free admission from February to March.

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http://www.edp24.co.uk/content/edp24/news/story.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&category=News&tBrand=EDPOnline&tCategory=xDefault&itemid=NOED11%20Jan%202010%2017%3A07%3A18%3A290
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Seahenge brings in record visitors by Andy B on Friday, 16 May 2008
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A Norfolk museum has recorded a large increase in visitors since opening a unique display of the Bronze Age wood circle known as Seahenge.

The Lynn Museum in King's Lynn underwent a £1.2m redevelopment before the exhibition was opened last month.

Norfolk Museums Service said 1,500 visited in its opening month, 73% more year-on-year before the display opened.

Seahenge was moved from its site at Holme-next-the-Sea and preserved in 1999, a year after being discovered.

Seahenge - 55 oak posts in a circle with a central stump - sat unnoticed and undisturbed off the Norfolk coast for almost 4,000 years.

Archaeologists at the Bronze Age Centre, believe between 50 and 80 people may have helped build the circle, possibly to mark the death of an important individual.

Seahenge became exposed at low tides after the peat dune covering it was swept away by winter storms.

The museum said if the rate of visits continues it will exceed forecasts.

Charles Wilde, from the Norfolk Museums Service, said: "Lynn Museum has been a much-loved attraction with local people for years.

"The recent re-development and the arrival of the Seahenge display have created a contemporary museum that has much wider appeal.

"Early indications are that the museum is attracting more people on a day trip to King's Lynn and as such the museum is contributing much more to local tourism."

The display allows visitors to see around half of the Seahenge timbers in a display which shows how they were found on the beach.

The arrangement allows visitors to view the timbers from both sides, including the 4,000-year-old marks left by around fifty bronze axes.

This display is mirrored by a full-size replica showing how the structure would have appeared at the time of its construction, which visitors can enter and explore.

Source, with photos at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/7396846.stm
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Ancient Seahenge 'returns home' by Andy B on Thursday, 03 April 2008
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A timber circle dating back 4,000 years which was found in the sea off the Norfolk coast is to return to the county in a permanent display.

Seahenge, with 55 oak posts and a central upturned stump dating from the Bronze Age, was found emerging from a beach at Holme-next-the-Sea in 1998.

Timbers were studied at the Bronze Age Centre, Peterborough, then preserved at the Mary Rose Trust, Portsmouth.

Now Seahenge has gone on display at the Lynn Museum in King's Lynn.

After Seahenge was excavated, 3D laser scanning revealed the earliest metal tool marks on wood ever discovered in Britain.

Archaeologists at the Bronze Age Centre, believe between 50 and 80 people may have helped build the circle, possibly to mark the death of an important individual.

Seahenge became exposed at low tides after the peat dune covering it was swept away by winter storms.

The site's excavation was initially halted by protests by a group of about 12 Druids and environmental campaigners who said the sea had cared for the site for 4,000 years and would continue to do so.

But researchers said the exposed wood was deteriorating fast.

Funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Norfolk County Council has been provided for the Seahenge Gallery project at the Lynn Museum which will house the timber, displayed in its original formation.

The central stump, which is still being treated, will join the gallery at a later date.

John Gretton, of Norfolk County Council, said: "The discovery of Seahenge in the summer of 1998 captured the imagination of the public and archaeologists alike.

"Whilst the research done on the timbers has led to some historians drawing conclusions, the original function of Seahenge remains mysterious, and I hope that visitors will flock to the newly restored Lynn Museum to speculate on the ancient meaning behind the timbers - which we were able to rescue for all time from further damage."

Source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7312429.stm
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Lynn Museum close to unveiling Seahenge timbers by Andy B on Friday, 15 February 2008
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Lynn Museum has closed temporarily while its new Seahenge gallery is completed to tell the story of Bronze Age Lynn and showcase the 4,000-year-old timbers found at nearby Holme.

The timbers have been on quite a journey since they were excavated from the shoreline in 1999. The preserved circle of oak posts was lifted and initially taken to Flag Fen Bronze Age Centre in Cambridgeshire for preliminary preservation and studying, before the Mary Rose Trust in Portsmouth received them for conservation work in 2003.

The new gallery at Lynn Museum will display half of the 55 timbers as they were found and also a reconstruction of what they might have looked like when built. The central up-turned tree stump is still at Portsmouth – its size means conservation work on it is taking longer.

“The museum has all of them, but after thorough public consultation we decided to display just half of them so that we also had the space to tell the story behind them,” said Hannah Jackson, Project Manager for the museum’s £1.2million redevelopment.

“On one side we’ve got a 22-metre long mural of a Bronze Age landscape. We’re trying to show people that Seahenge wasn’t on the coast when it was built – it was actually slightly inland on salt marsh.”

The timbers themselves are shown with a backdrop of the modern beach setting as they were found. They’re set within plinths so that visitors can see both the cut side of the lengths and the bark.

The new gallery offers various theories as to what the timber circle, made of trees felled in 2049BC, could have been used for.

“The main theory supported by archaeologists is that it was to do with excarnation,” said Hannah. “That is, bodies would have been laid out there for birds and animals to pick the bones clean. This theory is supported by finds at other sites, but the fact is we don’t know what Seahenge was for because there were no accompanying finds.”

Excarnation has been suggested because of jumbles of bones discovered at other sites that suggest they had been transported there rather than coming from a buried whole body.

The upturned stump that was situated at the centre of the Seahenge circle could have held a body for this purpose. Such an inversion could have been symbolic, too, suggested Hannah, referring to the world of the dead rather than the living. The use of the wood and leaving the bark on might even suggest the henge was related to the worship of a woodland deity.

The conservation process has taken a long time. At Flag Fen, the timbers were sprayed and salt water drawn out, before conservators at the Mary Rose Trust began to apply the same processes to them as have been used on the famous Tudor warship.

“The timbers were immersed in a synthetic wax, polyethylene glycol, or PEG,” said Hannah. “Then they were vacuum freeze-dried. That is, they were taken down to a temperature of –20C and placed in a vacuum, where the ice turns to vapour straight from its solid state, so that the liquid has less opportunity to damage the timber.”

Now visitors will be able to see the wooden henge in the well-preserved state in which it was found.

“They’ve survived very well after 4,000 years!” added Hannah.

The Bronze Age gallery is the second part of Lynn Museum’s Heritage Lottery funded redevelopment, which has already seen the museum’s Chapel gallery refurbished. The Chapel gallery tells the story of the area from the Iron Age onwards with archaeological finds and other exhibits.

The museum will reopen in the spring.

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http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART54178.html
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Seahenge ready to return to Norfolk by Andy B on Monday, 15 January 2007
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Norfolk's famous Bronze Age timber circle should finally be returning to the county in the next couple of months, ready to take pride of place in a flagship exhibition.

A display of part of Seahenge, which was controversially excavated from the shoreline at Holme, near Hunstanton, in 1999, is set to be the crowning glory of a £1m museum redevelopment at King's Lynn.

The 55 oak posts and central, upturned tree stump, which were all that remained of a structure built by an inland farming community in the spring or early summer of 2049BC, have been undergoing specialist conservation at the Mary Rose Trust in Portsmouth.

Although work on the giant stump - thought to be the largest piece of wood ever preserved, is expected to take several more years, the timbers themselves are now in the final stages of the process.

The main chapel gallery at Lynn Museum was closed to the public after Christmas to allow staff to prepare for the installation of an exhibition telling the story of West Norfolk, although a temporary display, the Changing Face of Lynn, is still open.

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Grant puts Seahenge in the spotlight by Andy B on Friday, 18 August 2006
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Museum visitors will be able to experience more of the history of a remarkable Norfolk monument next year - thanks to a cash windfall from the government.

An exhibition of part of the Bronze Age timber circle, Seahenge, is set to be the crowning glory of a £1m redevelopment of King's Lynn Museum.

The museum reopened to visitors at Easter following the completion of the first phase of the revamp, which included the removal of a ceiling to expose the roof and windows of the former non-Conformist chapel for the first time in four decades.

Posts from the circle, which have been undergoing specialist conservation at the Mary Rose Trust in Portsmouth following their controversial excavation from the beach at Holme, near Hunstanton, in 1999, are due to return to Lynn after Christmas, ready for mounting in a specially-designed display.

But 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.

Area museums officer Robin Hanley said there were hopes of setting up a replica of the original structure, which was built in the spring or early summer of 2049BC.

"Obviously we are going to display about half of the original timbers but we felt it was important that people had a way to actually feel what it would have been like to walk into the circle," he explained. "What survives is only very fragmented.

"The current plan is to have, effectively, a complete circle in the centre of the gallery, one half of which will be the original timbers and the other will be a full-size replica."

A audio-visual display will show the dramatic change in the landscape around Seahenge from the Bronze Age, when it formed part of an inland farming community, to the shifting sands which revealed it to the world as the 20th century drew to a close.

There are also plans for an interactive interpretation, particularly aimed at children, charting the step-by-step progress of the timbers from their harvest in a local wood to their assembly into the circle, and to provide a resource centre offering a range of in-depth additional information about the Seahenge story as a whole.

"It's obviously very good news that we got this additional funding," said Dr Hanley. "While the core funding for the display is already there in terms of of the grant we obtained from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the funding we have received from Norfolk County Council, this additional funding will enable us to provide some extra resources in the gallery, which will help people get the most from their visit.

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