Flag Fen Bronze Age Centre: The story of Flag Fen begins right back in 1982. The site was discovered when a mechanical digger working on one of the Fen drainage ditches pulled up some timber that appeared to have been split in a very distinctive manner. The team of archaeologists, led by Dr Francis Pryor, sent the timber for radiocarbon dating and it was returned having been dated to 1000 BC. And now, the saga continues!
The Bronze Age roundhouse at Flag fen is based on one excavated at Fengate in 1976. The Iron Age roundhouse at Flag Fen is based on excavated examples from later Iron age settlements at Fengate, and elsewhere in Britain. Houses of this general type would have been in use around 250 BC.
In the Spring of 1998 a circle of prehistoric timbers, exposed by the receding tide, was found projecting from the sands at Holme-next-the-Sea in Norfolk. The site, soon to become known as 'Seahenge', would prove to be the most remarkable controversial and highly publicised archaeological find in Britain for many years.
Seahenge is a unique early Bronze Age timber circle with an upside down oak tree stump at its centre.
The oak stump, with its roots in the air, was first spotted in spring 1998. As the sea eroded the land, a complete circle of timber posts gradually became visible around it. .
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