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2012 Exhibtion at Mersea Museum

Mersea's Buried Secrets

Mersea Barrow
It is 100 years since the Barrow was excavated, and in 2012 the contents of the tomb in the Barrow have returned to Mersea for the first time. They are on exhibition in Mersea Museum, kindly loaned by Colchester Museum.

Roman Mersea
Mersea Island was a significant Roman settlement and there have been many finds over the years.

Red Hills and Salt making
Red Hills are low mounds, found near creeks or rivers, composed of soil burnt red in marked contrast to the clay on which they stand. Many have disappeared over the years, but if you know where to look...

Fish Traps
The remains of many Fish Traps or Fish Weirs can be found in the Blackwater Estuary and surrounding areas.

Farming
Farming was and still is an important part of Mersea life.There is a new display with farm implements and photographs.

Old Mersea shops and businesses
Digby's Ironmongers. Clifford White - builders merchants, brickmakers, insurance agents, undertakers. Samuel Cant White.

Mersea Island Golf Club
The Golf Club at East Mersea was opened in 1910. By the 1930s it was a full 18 holes, but was closed by the Second World War and never reopened. The Museum has a number of relics from the Club.

Audio Visual slideshow
A slideshow by Brian Jay will be running.
All old slideshows are available in the Resource Centre.

The urn and bones from Mersea Barrow - back in Mersea after 100 years.
 
West Mersea beach in the early 1920s.
 
Fish weir on the Nass, looking north towards West Mersea
 
John Leather in his West Mersea One Design BUZZING BEE
 
A modern oyster dredger
 
In the Cornfield - farming on Mersea around 1908.
Mersea Mound or Mersea Barrow - a Roman or Romano-British burial mound.
 
The Wheel Tomb or mausoleum, discovered off Beach Road, West Mersea, in 1896. Now largely destroyed.
 
Red Hill, Thirslet Creek, River Blackwater. One of several in the area
 
 
Digby advertisement from a Mersea Guide around 1935.
 
 
In the Cornfields - farming at the beginning of the 20th century
 

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