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The post alignment consisted of around 60,000 trees (mostly oak and ash). They were hammered vertically into the marsh, or placed in between to form a causeway. An artifical platform or island was built in the middle. The post alignment was built or added to over a period of about 400 years. Its ...

Flag Fen Causeway

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The post alignment consisted of around 60,000 trees (mostly oak and ash). They were hammered vertically into the marsh, or placed in between to form a causeway. An artifical platform or island was built in the middle. The post alignment was built or added to over a period of about 400 years. Its use is still debated. It may have been a way of crossing the marsh, a refuge in times of trouble or ritual site. Many ritual offerings were left in the water alongside the causeway. Picture taken on 6th August 2006 at Flag Fen, Cambridgeshire.

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6th Aug 2006 by Diane Earl

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Bronze Age wood monument causeway wetland engineering worship ritual droveway bridge boundary defence structure feast offering godsrnmuseum Flag Fen oak ash post offering defense rite worship

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