Seahenge on Display

Posted by Natasha Sheldon Jun 30, 2008

Seahenge has a new home at the Lynn Museum in Kings Lynn, UK. The timber circle, first discovered in the coastal marshland of Holme-next-the Sea ten years ago, has been reconstructed. The display includes a backdrop recreating the scenery that surrounded the structure. 'Seahenge' was neither on the sea or a henge monument. In the Bronze Age, the structure was surrounded by oak woodlands rather than by the seaside. Lacking either the ditch or bank that typifies a henge monument, its exact function remains a mystery. Although the upturned oak stump is a reproduction as the original is still undergoing conservation at the Mary Rose trust, the palisade surrounding the trunk incorporates timbers recovered from the monument, giving a real sense of what it looked like.