'Seahenge' experts find new timber circle.Byline: AIDAN McGURRAN ARCHAEOLOGISTS are investigating a second possible Bronze Age Bronze Age, period in the development of technology when metals were first used regularly in the manufacture of tools and weapons. Pure copper and bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, were used indiscriminately at first; this early period is sometimes called the timber circle In archaeology, a timber circles are circular arrangements of wooden posts interpreted as being either complexes of freestanding totem poles or as the supports for large circular buildings Timber circles in the British Isles on a beach - less than 200 yards from one known as Seahenge. The decaying wood driven into the sand and encircling encircling (en·serˑ·k two oak logs has been exposed by tidal erosion at Holme-next-the-Sea, Norfolk. The circle is thought to be a burial mound and is twice the diameter of the 4,000-year-old Seahenge which was dug up 18 months ago. Local author Mathew Champion said: "The beach at Holme HOLME Handshape, Orientation, Location, Movement, and Expression (sign language) is one of the most important Bronze Age sites ever found in Britain and there could still be other circles there." |
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