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- Ancient site.name
- Seahenge
- Ancient site.image
- Seahenge.jpg
- Ancient site.caption
- Seahenge in the temporary exhibition ″The World of Stonehenge″ at the British Museum
- Ancient site.map_caption
- Location in England, United Kingdom
- Ancient site.map_type
- UK England
- Ancient site.location
- England, United Kingdom
- Ancient site.relief
- 2
- Ancient site.type
- Timber circle
- Ancient site.diameter
- (original)
- Ancient site.material
- Oak wood
- Ancient site.built
- Built: 2049 BC Destroyed: 1999
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- United Kingdom
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- Description
- Construction
- Purpose
- Discovery
- Preliminary excavation
- Media interest
- Excavation
- Protests
- Conservation
- Reconstruction
- Exhibition
- Holme II
- In popular culture
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- Further reading
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thumb|Beach at Old Hunstanton
Seahenge, also known as Holme I, was a prehistoric monument located in the village of Holme-next-the-Sea, near Old Hunstanton in the English county of Norfolk. A timber circle with an upturned tree root in the centre, Seahenge, along with the nearby timber circle Holme II, was built in the spring-summer of 2049 BC, during the early Bronze Age in Britain. Contemporary theory is that they were used for ritual purposes; in particular Holme II has been interpreted as a mortuary monument that may originally have formed the boundary of a burial mound.
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