St Peter’s Church & Bones Alive!

St Peter’s Church & Bones Alive!: A Major New Exhibition Opens In 2007
Barton-upon-Humber, North Lincolnshire (in the southern shadow of the Humber Bridge)
Opens to public 26 May 2007

With a history spanning a millennium, St Peter’s is both an architectural and archaeological treasure.

It is the most-studied church in England, not only because of the remarkable survival of its Saxon tower but because it is the UK’s largest single-site resource for historic bone analysis from excavations of 2800 burials dating back over 900 years.
Groundbreaking techniques reveal insights into Barton’s ancestors: the diseases they endured, their diet and medicine; and also clues to their hopes, feelings and dreams by exploring the way they honoured their dead.

Following restoration and years of scientific investigation, the church re-opens with a major new exhibition in May 2007 featuring:
• glimpses of individual past lives through the presentation of genuine human skeletons
• through graphic displays and interactives, visitors will be invited to think like scientific detectives
• through archaeological finds and burial rites: the way people buried their loved ones and the forgotten objects that lay with the dead for centuries – they all reveal what people thought about the world they lived-in and the afterlife they believed would follow

Open 26 May 07 -30 Sep 10am-5pm daily, 1 Oct-20 Mar 08 10am-4pm, Sat - Mon. Closed 24-26 Dec and 1 Jan.  £4 adults, £3 concs, £2 children

For more details, call 0870 333 1181 or visit www.english-heritage.org.uk/yorkshire

THIS FLAGSHIP PARTNERSHIP PROJECT IS HELPING BOOST TOURISM AND REGENERATE THE SURROUNDING AREA
This project is part of a wider partnership that has helped draw together £4.5m to regenerate and increase the potential of tourism within the South Bank Humber area.