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Ever heard of Stonehenge? I bet you have... but ever heard of the Seahenge?

SEAHENGE

Seahenge, which is also known as ‘Holme I”, was a prehistoric monument located in the village of Holme-next-the-Sea in the English county of Norfolk. A circle of tree trunks with an bigger tree root in the centre. No one konws the exact year it was built, apparently it was in the twenty-first century BC, during the early Bronze Age in Britain, probably for ritual purposes. As we now know, the Celts weren’t the ones that built Stonehenge and therefore neither did they build Seahenge.

It was discovered in 1998 by its village neighbors: a small 'circle' of 55 oak posts surrounding a large inverted oak tree, there was a blocked entranceway to the south west which faced onto the midwinter sunset. About 50 different bronze axes had been used and woodchips found within the post sockets showed the timbers had been shaped ‘in loco’. We know little about this Henge, it was taken to a museum so it wouldn’t be worn out by the weather.