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Flag Fen

Near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

A causeway of 60,000 timbers, and offerings thrown into the water.

In 1982 Francis Pryor stumbled on a causeway of more than 60,000 timbers running a kilometre across the fen. For over a thousand years, people threw swords, spears and jewellery into the water on one side of it.

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When
c. 1365–967 BC
Where
52.5740, -0.1900
Group
Circles & monuments

Visiting

Flag Fen Archaeology Park is open to visitors.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
From the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

From the south side of the post line, and only the south, objects were dropped into the water for more than 1,200 years. They were swords, spearheads, gold earrings, tiny pins and brooches.

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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