Fen flag

Flag Fen (" The yellow Marsh of iris " close to the city of Peterborough, England is a site of Bronze Age, probably monk. It includes/understands several poles arranged in five very long rows (around 1 km) connecting the Island of Whittlesey with the city of Peterborough, through the wet marsh. To separate the way through the structure, an small island was formed which is where it is supposed that the religious ceremonies arrived. By convention, it is allowed that the Bronze Age covers one period ranging between -2500 to -1000. However, as for the other periods of prehistory, the chronological limits of the Bronze Age vary considerably according to the cultural surface and the geographical surface considered. The level of ground was much of undercrust that, increasing today around 1 mm per the year as the autumnal remains are added to the surface of the marshes. Ca caused the structure wrapped and preserved being. The anaerobic conditions found in the ground prevented wood and the other objects out of wooden to rot far. The site is discovered has 1982, when a team carried out by Francis Pryor carried out a study of dams in the sector subsidized by the English Heritage.

By reason of the vast drainage of the surrounding sector, much of wood dry and are annoyed by destruction. The archeologists built a center of the visitors, organized with a museum and the exposures. In the hall of safeguarding, a section of wood is preserved in-situ and prevented of dry by watering daily. Also with the site are rebuildings of 2 goods of Bronze Age and another of the Age of iron. There is also an exposed section of the way Roman which is called `the Roadway of the Marsh' which crosses the site.

A section of the poles is preserved by the substitute of cellulose of wood with wax carried soaking with wood during the years. This technique is also used to preserve “Seahenge”. Another technique of safeguarding for wood found with the site is frozen.

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