Flag Fen
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Feb 02, 2021 06:38 PM
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History
tags:
extant remains
Flag Fen is a Bronze Age ritual site near Peterborough, England, comprised of 60,000 timbers arranged in five rows that connect Whittlesey Island with Peterborough. Dendrochronological evidence has dates the site to ca. 1365–967 BC.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/535275912
52.5748052146, -0.189292000512
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Flag Fen (2500 BC - 800 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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sanctuary (religious center)
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Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, 'Flag Fen: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/535275912> [accessed: 21 December 2024]
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