The Iron Age earthwork at Borough Fen is one of several #prehistoric enclosures built near the borders of the fen wetlands to manage large #communal herds of cattle grazing on the damp #pastures in summer, were centres for autumn roundups & seasonal assemblies for managing both.
The Iron Age earthwork at Borough Fen is one of several #prehistoric enclosures built near the borders of the fen wetlands to manage large #communal herds of cattle grazing on the damp #pastures in summer, were centres for autumn roundups & seasonal assemblies for managing both.
The Iron Age earthwork at Borough Fen is one of several #prehistoric enclosures built near the borders of the fen wetlands to manage large #communal herds of cattle grazing on the damp #pastures in summer, were centres for autumn roundups & seasonal assemblies for managing both.
It lies in the same #common wetland grazed by the whole of the #medieval Soke of Peterborough; that was the early medieval common pasture of the 5th/6thC Gyrwe (‘fen people’); & which, @PryorFrancis’s work suggests, had been common through prehistory.
There’s another at Stonea Camp, and others at Tattershall Thorpe in Lincs. and Arbury Camp on the outskirts of Cambridge https://twitter.com/drsueoosthuizen/status/1197567706586894338?s=21 https://twitter.com/drsueoosthuizen/status/1197567706586894338
And for more on Borough Fen & it’s region see http://eaareports.org.uk/publication/report35/ and reports by @PryorFrancis & other in the same series http://eaareports.org.uk/?s=Pryor . End.
The Fenland Project No.2: Fenland Landscapes and Settlement between Peterborough and March - East...

David Hall, 1987. 'The Fenland Project No.2: Fenland Landscapes and Settlement between Peterborough and March', East Anglian Archaeology 35

http://eaareports.org.uk/publication/report35/
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