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Seahenge
Seahenge
Seahenge
Seahenge
• Inversion: ie everyday objects upturned during
the Bronze Age
– symbolises taking objects out of this world and
placing them in the next
• Inverted oak stump-altar? Excarnation
platform?
• Symbolic location on coast-”Between 2
worlds”?
• Or, simply to mark a boundary?
One of the most haunting and enigmatic
archaeological discoveries of recent times was
the uncovering in 1998 at low tide of the so-
called Seahenge off the north coast of Norfolk.
This circle of wooden planks set vertically in
the sand, with a large inverted tree-trunk in
the middle, likened to a ghostly ‘hand
reaching up from the underworld’, has now
been dated back to around 2020 BC. The
timbers are currently (and controversially) in
the author’s safekeeping at Flag Fen.

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Seahenge

  • 4. Seahenge • Inversion: ie everyday objects upturned during the Bronze Age – symbolises taking objects out of this world and placing them in the next • Inverted oak stump-altar? Excarnation platform? • Symbolic location on coast-”Between 2 worlds”? • Or, simply to mark a boundary?
  • 5. One of the most haunting and enigmatic archaeological discoveries of recent times was the uncovering in 1998 at low tide of the so- called Seahenge off the north coast of Norfolk. This circle of wooden planks set vertically in the sand, with a large inverted tree-trunk in the middle, likened to a ghostly ‘hand reaching up from the underworld’, has now been dated back to around 2020 BC. The timbers are currently (and controversially) in the author’s safekeeping at Flag Fen.