Fen Edge Archaeology Group was formed in 2008 and our principal aim is to promote further understanding of the archaeology in the parishes of Willingham, Rampton, Cottenham, Landbeach and Waterbeach, which are in the county of Cambridgeshire.  The group takes its name from its origins in the Fen Edge Community Association.

Please look through our website to find out more about us and what we do.  We are always pleased to welcome new members.  If you would like to join our group or find out more about us then do not hesitate to fill in an application form or contact us.

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Next Meeting:-

Tuesday 21st January 7.30

‘Under the fen, under the sand: Excavating prehistoric land surfaces’

Lesley  McFadyen

This talk will present excavations from the English fens and Simon Sand Quarry on Jersey.

On low lying gravel terraces on the western edge of the English fens, a Middle Bronze Age peat horizon obscures an old land surface dotted with small pits of Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age date. During seven seasons of fieldwork by Birkbeck College students and members of the Cambridge Archaeological Unit at Must Farm, Cambridgeshire have investigated the presence of material culture at a landscape-scale. 

At Simon Sand Quarry on Jersey, three seasons of fieldwork of test-pitting in a buried prehistoric soil have revealed Mesolithic and Neolithic artefacts, in particular, a concentration of Early Neolithic material culture of local and imported wares. A large pit, kitchen midden and associated finds (e.g. daub with round wood impressions) are evidence for the first Early Neolithic house on the island.

Dr Lesley McFadyen is a senior lecturer in archaeology at Birkbeck. Her research works across chronology and geography, and engages with evidence for the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age, particularly in Britain, France and Portugal.

NB This meeting will be held at Willingham Baptist Church 

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Workshops

FEAG holds monthly practical workshops. We have been using the workshops to work on the full recording of the small finds from the Twenty Pence Project excavations and will continue with that process and other aspects of the Twenty Pence Project until it is completed.

All members are welcome to join us. Please contact the secretary by email (feaginfo@gmail.com ) if you would like to take part.

Training Grants

Small grants are available for Members wishing to attend courses on practical archaeological skills

For details please go to FEAG’s blog: https://feagblog.wordpress.com/