Bronze Age monument discovered on West Norfolk beach is included in the latest A-level syllabus

THE reasons why a unique timber circle was created by some of West Norfolk’s earliest inhabitants will be debated by the next generation.

Seahenge lay hidden at Holme Beach for thousands of years until the sands shifted to reveal the circle in 1998.

Archaeologists have been debating why early Bronze Age builders constructed the 55 oak posts around an upturned tree stump.

It is believed that Seahenge could be a ceremonial monument in which the bones of a Bronze Age VIP would have been placed to “weather” before being buried elsewhere.

But teenagers will now be able to put forward their ideas as Seahenge features in an A-level syllabus set by AQA [...] Lynn News