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Submitted by coldrum on Monday, 15 January 2007 Page Views: 2462
Neolithic and Bronze AgeCountry: England County: Norfolk Type: Timber CircleInternal Links:
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.
More in the East Anglian Daily Press.
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