Thanks mairdie.
Posted on 12/12/2021 11:49:04 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Set in a remote, windswept salt marsh next to the sea, 54 wooden posts 10ft high stood lashed into a circle, so tightly bound together it was almost impossible to see through the cracks.
At the circle's centre was an upturned tree, its roots reaching toward the heavens like branches...
Now the mysterious structure, known as Seahenge, will go on display for the first time as part of the British Museum's blockbuster exhibition, The World of Stonehenge, which opens in February. Like the mythical lost city of Atlantis, Seahenge lay silently waiting to be discovered for thousands of years...
Imagine the astonishment of archaeologists called to Holme-next-the Sea, who arrived to find this huge, Bronze Age structure, more than 4,000 years old, intact.
Such circles had been the subject of speculation for years. But unlike Stonehenge, which was still standing after 5,000 years, timber circles had all but vanished.
Archaeologists had found post holes in the ground and the occasional sliver of wood, but here was the real thing...
In the 20 or so years since Seahenge was discovered, archaeological techniques have become refined enough to give us some astonishing details.
Thanks to carbon-dating and tree rings found in the remaining stumps, we know Seahenge was built in the spring or summer of 2049 BC.
The upturned oak at its centre was probably a tree that had blown down in a storm and was dragged to the salt marsh using a rope of woven honeysuckle.
After its discovery, Seahenge was excavated and experts who had helped save Henry VIII's warship, the Mary Rose, advised on timber preservation...
Markings in Seahenge's oak posts show that 51 bronze axes were used in its construction, suggesting a large community came together to create it.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Thanks mairdie.
No pic?
And how have the druids been holding up since it was discovered that Stonehenge was there long before their culture and that they simply “appropriated” it?😬😂
Amazing! I hope they publish more photos because I want to SEE it, not just the tips of the taller posts!
Thanks! What a find!
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did Grizwald knock it over with a sub?
Ah! The Summer of Forty-Nine
Thanks, skr!
That was profoundly more information than I could deal with at one sitting, but it was fun to look!
“a battle is raging”? Really?
Hmmm... All those mysterious circles...
Maybe they were trying to determine the equation for the circumference of a circle...
Speaking of mysteries post patterns, one of our favorite bass-fishing spots on the North River (couple miles north of where it empties into Albermarle Sound) is a small marshland bay of 4-to-6-foot water that has hundreds of submerged & rotted posts in a random pattern...
After much debate we finally decided that they had been put there by snake (cotton mouth) worshipers who, apparently, had mastered chaos theory...
Always interesting. Tnks!
Mmm..circles
Oak wood 4,000 years old in a tidal zone subject to all manner of marine organisms, oxidation and weather? Preserved by brine? Used 51 bronze age axes?
Somebody is pulling legs.
It was a prehistoric instrument for measuring the encroachment of beach sand. It worked brilliantly.
What?? You think this is some cheap rhetoric pounded out by some guy/gal being paid by the word? Is THAT what you think is going on? No, these are scientists in chain mail armor swinging flails and spiky mace heads at one another. Broadswords are used. One used the lance to pierce his opponent. I mean it's a battle raging amongst these serious archaeologists who mean business.
Archaeologists have now confirmed a second circle found nearby was linked to Seahenge.
While Seahenge is thought to have been built to mark the death of an important individual, the second circle nearby could be the remains of a burial mound.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2677664/Seahenge-sister-Second-timber-circle-uncovered-Norwich-coast-burial-mound-Bronze-Age-leaders.html
By VICTORIA WOOLLASTON
PUBLISHED: 05:37 EST, 2 July 2014 | UPDATED: 11:43 EST, 2 July 2014
Stonehenge’s underwater sister: Second timber circle uncovered off Norwich coast may have been a burial mound for Bronze Age leaders
King Aquaman! :^) Thanks AGR.
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