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A Bronze Age Landscape
Location: City of Peterborough
Flag Fen is an excavated Bronze Age site near Peterborough which includes an area of reconstructed Bronze Age landscape.
This project created 400 metres of laid hedge, showing very effective methods of boundary management used in the past, here and elsewhere. This enabled volunteers to learn new skills and showed how people in the past employed sophisticated techniques to achieve their goals.
The group also made portable wattle hurdles as a demonstration of alternative fencing methods.
An interpretation board was erected for the site to explain to visitors the techniques and their relevance to the site.
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Fenland Archaeological Trust |
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The Droveway, Northey Road, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire |
| Project Postcode |
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PE6 7QJ |
| Finishing Date |
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February 2006 |
| See also |
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Fenland Archaeological Trust website |
| Local Community Involvement / Partnerships: |
Three open days were held for those from the local community, and further afield, to visit free of charge to see the work that was done.
These open days also enabled the volunteers to get together again.
The results can also be seen on an ongoing basis at the site through normal visitor arrangements. |
| Grants: |
Heritage Lottery Fund: £4,899
Nationwide Building Society: £1,110
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