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Peat Moors Centre

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42: 180: 195: 29: 165: 49: 237:. From time to time the centre offered courses in a number of ancient technologies in subjects including textiles, clothing and basket making, as well as staging various open days, displays and demonstrations. 276: 352: 243:, the owners of the Peat Moors Centre, closed the centre for budgetary reasons on 31 October 2009. The former staff hoped to launch a successor to the centre, run by a 419: 324: 429: 284: 41: 424: 94: 349: 414: 404: 87: 389: 368: 247:, to be known as the 'Somerset Lake Village Project' and involving the reconstruction of an Iron Age lake village. 244: 409: 230: 384: 240: 158: 225:. It also included reconstructions of some of the archaeological discoveries, including a number of 129: 142: 356: 256: 222: 203: 188: 173: 179: 306: 398: 194: 234: 210: 76: 109: 96: 164: 226: 150: 80: 57: 218: 214: 199: 184: 169: 157:. The centre was run by the Somerset Historic Environment Service, but 154: 146: 72: 28: 193: 178: 163: 359:
This Is Somerset, published 2010-06-03, accessed 2011-01-21
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closed it in October 2009 in the course of budget cuts.
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Circular thatched building seen through trees
Peat Moors Centre is located in Somerset
Somerset
Westhay
Glastonbury
Somerset
Coordinates
51°10′44″N 2°48′35″W / 51.1789°N 2.8096°W / 51.1789; -2.8096
Centre web site
Shapwick
Westhay
Somerset
England
Somerset County Council

Westhay
somerset levels

Westhay
somerset levels

Westhay
somerset levels
archaeology
history
geology
Somerset Levels
Iron Age
Glastonbury Lake Village
Sweet Track

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