The team have their work cut out in the Cambridgeshire fenland, looking for remnants of an ancient culture in the flat landscape. The long wooden track would function as a barrier, defence and ritual passage where votive offerings were placed in the water. At the end of it they hope to find a barrow - a circular Bronze Age burial mound. Dave Chapman constructs a bronze axe in a primitive furnace; while wood expert Maisie Taylor looks for a suitable handle in nearby woodland. |
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Title: | A Bronze-Age Barrow and Walkway - Flag Fen, Cambridgeshire | |
Air Date: | February 27, 2000 | |
Runtime: | 60 min | |
Genres: | History | |
Danfis : One word.... eeewww.