This summer’s heatwave meant cropmarks formed faster and were more obvious
These cropmarks reveal layouts of buried ditches or walls that once defined settlements, field boundaries or funerary monuments dating back to prehistoric times.
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Our latest Post-Ex Diary discusses understanding the context of Must Farm's material. Analysis of the site's environment is essential background to our current work refitting and exploring different artefact types. mustfarm.com/post-dig/post-…
Offa, King of the #Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, died #onthisday in AD 796. His imitation of a gold dinar of the caliph al-Mansur (714-775), ruler of the Islamic Abbasid dynasty, is one of the most remarkable early medieval English coins britishmuseum.org/research/colle… MT@BritishMuseum
Do you own live in or work with an old or listed property in #Wisbech? Want to learn how to look after it & preserve its heritage? Register now for our FREE @highstwisbech workshop with #conservation specialist Dr David Watt, of @HuttonRostron, on August 25. Booking essential.
Budding archaeologists will get their hands on history next week when our @highstwisbech Big Dig starts at @wisbechmuseum! 150 people will be taking part with @apsarchaeology, supported by @FenArch. There's also lots to see & do for spectactors! More info: fenland.gov.uk/article/13419/…
Time to spare in Wisbech next Weds. evening, 25 April? All welcome at my @fenarch lecture on the #AngloSaxon#Fenland: 7.30 pm at Mendi's Restaurant, 20-21 Old Market, Wisbech. To book your seat (@fenarch members free; £2 non-members) email info@fenarch.org.uk or text 07742321774
@wisbechmuseum will be the venue for our exciting new project. A new #Fenland#Archaeology group for 8-16 year olds will meet on the 4th Saturday of each month between 10am and noon. To learn more, go along on Saturday 28th April.
Just over a week till our guest speaker @DrSueOosthuizen will be discussing the Anglo-Saxon Fenland. Have you booked your seat yet? Further details at;
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By the mid-7thC #AngloSaxon communities in the E Amgluan fenland were collectively constructing canals called lodes [from OE gelād, to lead, just as water is still 'led' today] to manage water-levels in the rich wetland pastures on which their huge herds of cattle grazed
Time to spare in Wisbech on Weds. evening 25th April? All welcome at my @fenarch lecture on the #AngloSaxon#Fenland: 7.30 pm at Mendi's Restaurant, 20-21 Old Market, Wisbech. To book your seat (@fenarch members free; £2 non-members) email info@fenarch.org.uk or text 07742321774
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