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The Fens

The Fengate Bronze Age fields

Excavated ground plan of a Bronze Age roundhouse at Fengate

Ground plan of the Fengate Neolithic ‘house’, or mortuary structure

Ground plan of Fengate Site 11, showing the position of archaeological trenches

Ground plan of the Neolithic mortuary structure at Fengate discovered in 1997 by the Cambridge University archaeological team

The main features of the Avebury ritual landscape

Ground plan of the causewayed ditches at Windmill Hill, Avebury

The main features of the Stonehenge ritual landscape

Simplified plan of Stonehenge, Phases 1–3

The ritual landscape around Carnac, Brittany

Cropmarks revealed by air photography near the village of Maxey, Cambridgeshire

Ground plan of the causewayed enclosure at Etton, near Maxey

Ground plan of the small henge, with two nested ‘mini-henges’, at Fengate

Bronze Age fields revealed by air photography at West Deeping, near Maxey

A group of ‘mini-henges’ excavated by Gavin Simpson at Maxey, 1965–66

Decorated shaman’s baton from the Maxey ‘mini-henges’

A complex Later Neolithic henge (Etton Landscape Site 2), showing a succession of ditches, pits and post-holes, from the Etton/Maxey ritual landscape

The Maxey Great Henge complex

The oval barrow in the entranceway to the Great Henge at Maxey

Schematic cross-section through features of the Maxey Great Henge, showing phases of construction and destruction

Later Bronze Age wheel-ruts at Welland Bank Quarry, south Lincolnshire

Holme-next-the-Sea and the surrounding area

Plan of Holme timber circle (Source: Norfolk Archaeological Unit)

The forked double posts (numbers 35 and 37) that formed the narrow entrance to Seahenge

The enigmatic Street House ‘Wossit’, Yorkshire

Ground plan of a barrow at Whittlesey, near Peterborough (courtesy of Cambridge University Archaeological Unit)

Fengate and Flag Fen basin, showing the course of the Bronze Age post alignment and timber platform