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Sheep, stockyards and field systems: Bronze Age livestock populations in the Fenlands of eastern England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Francis Pryor
Francis Pryor*
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Flag Fen Excavations, Fourth Drove, Fengate, Peterborough PE1 5UR, England
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Abstract

When Francis Pryor excavated the settlement complex on the dry gravels at Fengate, east England, he was a full-time archaeologist. Now that he is working at the adjacent wetland site of Flag Fen, he has also become a sheep-farmer. That practical experience leads him to a new view of what created the pattern of these planned later prehistoric landscapes.

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 268 , June 1996 , pp. 313 - 324
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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