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Visit to Avalon Marshes Archaeological Reconstructions – Sunday 28th April 2pm
28 April, 2024 @ 14:00 - 15:30
Location – Avalon Marshes Centre Shapwick Road, Westhay, Glastonbury BA6 9TT
Guided tour of all the attractions – takes about 1hour 15 minutes. Cost is £8.50 per person but this will allow you to return to the reconstructions again in 2024 without any cost.
Booking Essential
SANHS office office@sanhs.org Tel: 01823272429
Café and parking available on the Avalon Marshes site as well as nearby nature reserves.
Attractions include
- A Saxon longhall with open fire based on the palace excavated at nearby Cheddar decorated with carved woodwork and murals.
- The dining room of a typical Roman villa in Somerset with a magnificent mosaic floor and murals, heated by a hypocaust.
- Viking trading vessel with mast and rigging based on the Skuldelev 3 wreck.
- Iron Age Roundhouse based on those in the Glastonbury Lake Village (under construction in 2024)
- The world’s oldest excavation hut and a cinema showing short films on local archaeology.