Seahenge

Bronze Age timber circle found at Holme next the Sea beach and popularly known as 'Seahenge'. The fragmentary remains come from a timber circle 6.6 metres in diameter, comprising 55 closely fitting oak posts, each originally up to 3 metres high. At the centre of the circle was a great upturned tree stump. Scientific dating methods show that the circle was erected in the spring of 2049 BC. The timber circle is a very rare and significant object. Wood rarely survives from the Bronze Age period and this circle was preserved by peat and uncovered by the action of the incoming sea . Its function is not known but as the circle was fully enclosed, it may have been a site of ritual and funeral rites, possibly with a body placed on the upturned centre tree stump.