The Iron Age earthwork at Borough Fen is one of several #prehistoric enclosures built near the borders of the fen wetlands to manage large #communal herds of cattle grazing on the damp #pastures in summer, were centres for autumn roundups & seasonal assemblies for managing both.
It lies in the same #common wetland grazed by the whole of the #medieval Soke of Peterborough; that was the early medieval common pasture of the 5th/6thC Gyrwe (‘fen people’); & which, @PryorFrancis’s work suggests, had been common through prehistory.
There’s another at Stonea Camp, and others at Tattershall Thorpe in Lincs. and Arbury Camp on the outskirts of Cambridge https://t.co/y0atadNEZD
And for more on Borough Fen & it’s region see eaareports.org.uk/publication/re… and reports by @PryorFrancis & other in the same series eaareports.org.uk/?s=Pryor. End.
‘Its region’, autocorrect, darn you - if you’re going to correct me at least BE correct. #OneJob 🤣
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