Flag Fen

Flag Fen is an archaeological place in Peterborough, England. The settled there with the same open-air museum displays a number of Bronze Age finds, interpretations and reconstructions.

The boardwalk

The basis of the museum is an approximately one -kilometer-long boardwalk, which was built during the Bronze Age ( 1350-950 BC) and connects the two dry "islands" Fengate and Northey. The route consisted of five parallel rows of posts that supported the wooden dock. It is estimated that over 60,000 woods were used for construction. It is believed that the five rows failed at the same time, but every rotten series was supplemented by a further set of post. A portion of the screed path is shown in the " Preservation Hall " in situ and provides a mess of rotten wood post, but maps and images help to classify the scene for the visitor.

Round houses

As reconstructions Bronze and Iron Age roundhouses are available. The interiors of the built of wattle and daub and covered with peat and straw buildings are equipped surprisingly spacious and with carved benches, beds and containers made from wood and ceramic bowls, weaving looms and herds etc. There is also a small museum on the grounds that many of the finds from Flag Fen and the surrounding archaeological sites shows. These include the remains of the oldest discovered in Britain wheel and some daggers, swords and spearheads from the Bronze Age, which were probably laid down in the waters of the fen as a ritual sacrifice.

Wood

Other archaeological sites are different wood sections, by means of numerous information boards explaining the various processes that explain the long-term conservation methods that are primarily performed by soaking in tanks.

The professional skills of Flag Fen also be used in other places made ​​findings. After the found on the beach at Holme- next-the -Sea in Norfolk wooden remains of a Timber Circle, had been known under the name Seahenge, excavated in the spring of 1999, they came to Flag Fen. Here they were subjected to several years of initial treatment to counteract the threat of decay and also extensively studied and measured. The final preservative found from 2003 in the Mary Rose Trust in Portsmouth held and is now closed. The pieces are now in King's Lynn at Lynn Museum, where half of it is on public display.

Roman road

Flag Fen also has a Roman road. The " Fen Causeway " is the only major Roman road, the Fens, a moorland landscape in eastern England, crosses, and was not built long after the Roman invasion of Britain in the mid 1st century AD.

337121
de