Members of other Salisbury U3As may join too.
Just ask if there are any vacancies from the Group Organiser
or ring Margaret McKenzie 01722 714 685
None
of us is an expert....just keen to share our interests.
A talk by John Curtis given on 28th April 2009
| Seahenge – What is a “Henge” |
| •Henge monuments are an archaeological invention, and was given its accepted archaeological definition by Professor Richard Atkinson in 1954 The term derives from the ‘henge’ or hanging stones of Stonehenge. |
| •Seahenge was discovered in 1968 on the south side of the Wash in north-west Norfolk. |
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Ancient peat beds
The actions of the sea and sand alter the landscape. As the waves roll over the exposed peat carrying particles of sand they act like sandpaper scouring away a thin layer of peat each time. As each layer of peat is exposed a new landscape emerges from the distant past resulting in the surface on which the original people built “seahenge”
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The forked double posts
numbers 35 and 37 that
together formed the
entrance to the timber
Circle. This was the only
forked piece of timber in
the entire circle.
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Aerial Photography & Archaeology
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