Amesbury's museum opens

MORE than 600 people had a first glimpse of Amesbury’s new museum and visitor centre over the Easter weekend.

The tourists and local people visited Melor Hall to see more than 1,000 exhibits relating to the town’s Mesolithic past.

They included flints and Aurochs bones which revealed that Amesbury has been a settlement for more than 8250 years.

Experts in geology and archaeology attended the four open afternoons where talks were given explaining the international significance of the finds around Amesbury. America’s senior cultural attaché Kate Bentley also visited the museum along with Julian Richards from the BBC’s Meet the Ancestor programme and hundreds of tourists who were visiting Salisbury or Stonehenge.
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