Bronze Age Field System at Tower's Fen, Thorney, Peterborough: Excavations at 'Thorney Borrow Pit' 2004-2005

by Ben Pears and Andrew Mudd

Archaeological excavation of about 11ha of land at Tower's Fen, Thorney, Peterborough (England), investigated part of an extensive pattern of ditched enclosures and fields associated with several waterholes and two ponds. One large pit, which may have been a waterhole, yielded Early Bronze Age pottery and is radiocarbon dated to the terminal 3rd millennium BC. Two other dates from the ponds came out at around 1500-1300 BC. The other features were...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1407303635
• ISBN13: 9781407303635
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.2" x 11.6"