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 probably also Middle to Late
Bronze Age although the limited quantity of pottery was not datable precisely. Waterlogged...

It has long been recognized that the landscape of Britain is one of the 'richest historical records we possess', but just how old is it? The Fields of Britannia is the first book to explore how far the countryside of Roman Britain has survived in use through to the present day, shaping the character of our modern countryside. Commencing with a discussion of the differing views of what happened to the landscape at the end of Roman Britain, the volume then brings together the results from hundreds of archaeological excavations and palaeoenvironmental investigations in order to map patterns of...