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by Melanie
Fri Aug 04, 2006 1:24 pm
Forum: Archived Discussion Forum
Topic: Prehistoric Causeways
Replies: 9
Views: 4950

If you're familiar with Flag Fen, Francis Pryor (who first excavated it back in the '70s) did a lot of research on the area. In a recent book of his (whose title I can't remember ), he describes how he now thinks that wooden structures he found years ago in the area could be the earliest evidence f...
by Melanie
Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:41 pm
Forum: Archived Discussion Forum
Topic: Prehistoric Causeways
Replies: 9
Views: 4950

Prehistoric Causeways

Hi All, I picked up this article from the news regarding a Prehistoric Causeway in Beccles, Suffolk.. http://www.bham.ac.uk/news_and_events_details.asp?section=0001000100080001&id=2674 I find this area fascinating - in Norfolk where I live, there tends to be clusters of tumuli (barrows) near to ...
by Melanie
Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:55 pm
Forum: Archived Discussion Forum
Topic: Europes Oldest Civilization Discovered
Replies: 219
Views: 62990

Apparently Britain is covered by circular-ditch enclosures The circular ditch enclosures are generally called henges. There are many across the UK and Europe which date from the Neolithic and the Bronze Age (of which the beaker period is a seperate period between the Neolithic and Bronze age - it r...
by Melanie
Fri Jul 28, 2006 2:23 pm
Forum: Archived Discussion Forum
Topic: Here, Arch... A Little Levity
Replies: 17
Views: 9265

I thought they were very funny :)
I have some on geography somewhere :wink: