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Submitted by bat400 on Tuesday, 12 July 2022  Page Views: 1276

MuseumsSite Name: National Park Visitors Centre Postbridge
Country: England County: Devon Type: Museum
 Nearest Village: Postbridge
Map Ref: SX6463578836
Latitude: 50.593512N  Longitude: 3.913823W
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National Park Visitors Centre Postbridge
National Park Visitors Centre Postbridge submitted by dodomad : New centre, double in size, our state-of-the-art centre features the latest technology to bring history to life in amazing detail, giving you a unique and special experience. One of the highlights is the story of the internationally significant Bronze Age finds at Whitehorse Hill. In 2011, a cist was excavated at Whitehorse Hill when one of the stones fell out of the peat mound covering ... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Dartmoor National Park Visitors Centre, a new centre double in size, features the latest technology to bring history to life in amazing detail, giving you a unique and special experience. One of the highlights is the story of the internationally significant Bronze Age finds at Whitehorse Hill.

Exhibitions and displays link seamlessly into the landscape helping you to confidently understand and explore the surrounding area’s amazing cultural heritage.
Visitor Centre Website.

Note: Dartmoor Heritage Event at the new visitor centre, Saturday 16th July
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Postbridge Visitor Centre Street View by Andy B on Tuesday, 12 July 2022
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Dartmoor Heritage Event, Saturday 16th July 2022 by Andy B on Sunday, 10 July 2022
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Dartmoor Heritage Event, Sat, 16 July, 10:30am to 4:00pm

Come and discover Dartmoor's amazing past at our hands on heritage day at Postbridge. People have helped shape the landscape we all love for thousands of years. There will be displays, demonstrations, living history and entertainment from Grimspound Border Morris. Explore the Bronze exhibition at the Visitor Centre or take a quiet walk along the History Hunters Trail.

Location: Postbridge Visitor Centre, Postbridge, Yelverton, Devon, PL20 6TH, United Kingdom

#FestivalofArchaeology 2022
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Postbridge Visitor Centre reopens after Major Refit; Celebrates Bronze Age heritage by bat400 on Saturday, 09 April 2022
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coldrum sends this news story from 2020 covering the refit of the Postbridge Visitors Centre:
An extended visitor centre at Postbridge, built to share and celebrate Dartmoor’s incredible Bronze Age heritage, [has opened.]

Double in size, the state-of-the-art centre features the latest technology to bring history to life in amazing detail, giving people a unique and special experience.

One of the highlights is the story of the internationally significant Bronze Age finds at Whitehorse Hill.

Dartmoor is the most important area for Bronze Age archaeology in Western Europe. There are more than 1,500 burial cairns on Dartmoor and more than 4,000 hut circles.

In 2011, a cist was excavated at Whitehorse Hill when one of the stones fell out of the peat mound covering it. Due to the unusual environmental conditions amazingly, cremated human remains and other organic material had been preserved for thousands of years.

It’s believed the remains were those of a high-rank young woman. She was buried with a number of personal items including a woven basket containing beads, (probably a necklace), a leather and textile band and a finely woven bracelet with tin studs. There were also four finely turned wooden studs which may have been worn in the ears or lip.

The centre tells the story of who she was and how she lived, through her own eyes.

Replicas of the items will be on display alongside a handcrafted roundhouse.

For more, see the Mid Devon Advertiser
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