Seahenge
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- Created on: 13-05-14 17:31
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- Seahenge
- Artefacts
- At least 51 different bronze axe blades were used for felling, end squaring & trimming branches
- Thought thst each blade could represent a person (show rites of intensification - community worked together)
- Palisade axe of middle bronze age found near by
- At least 51 different bronze axe blades were used for felling, end squaring & trimming branches
- Comparative arch sites
- Woodhenge
- Timber circle
- Neolithic class 2 henge
- Part of Stonehenge Heritage site in Wiltshire
- Inhumation child, seen as a sacrifice to a spirit or deity
- Isbister
- Excarnation
- Maes Howe
- Blocking stone
- Woodhenge
- Site Description
- Timber palisade circle
- Consisting of 55 split oak trunks forming an ovoid shape.
- Within the timber is an upturned (inverted) oak tree stump.
- Unique site
- Due to its preservation
- Coastal site, so rescue excavation
- Due to its preservation
- Dendrochro.. dating identified when central trunk fell (2050BC) & posts for the circle fell (2049BC)
- Timber palisade circle
- Religious key terms
- Excarnation (however not really practical (no bones found)
- Religious specialist (small entrance)
- Liminal zone between land and the sea
- Sensory experience (sand- soft) (light/dark colour)
- Ritual Structure (possible worship to a spirit)
- Focus of attention?
- RItes of intensification
- Early Bronze Age, timber circle in Norfolk
- Features
- 55 posts forming ovoid shape
- Posts 35 & 37 look like two timbers but are attached (look like a fork branch)(small gap ritual specialist to pass through)
- Post 36 is placed outside the forked branch (blocking view into the interior) liminal?
- all posts have bark facing outside of circle apart from one (post 30)
- This gives a break in texture & colour within the interior and exterior of the circle (sensory experience)
- Most bark on exterior face of the circle could suggest mimicking of a tree? (animism, tree spirits)
- central inverted tree stump
- Pulled into place by using honeysuckle stems
- Artefacts
- Features
- 55 posts forming ovoid shape
- Posts 35 & 37 look like two timbers but are attached (look like a fork branch)(small gap ritual specialist to pass through)
- Post 36 is placed outside the forked branch (blocking view into the interior) liminal?
- all posts have bark facing outside of circle apart from one (post 30)
- This gives a break in texture & colour within the interior and exterior of the circle (sensory experience)
- Most bark on exterior face of the circle could suggest mimicking of a tree? (animism, tree spirits)
- central inverted tree stump
- Pulled into place by using honeysuckle stems
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