Welcome to Fen Edge Archaeology Group
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.
FEAG is also on facebook. Click the link to visit our page.
Next Meeting:-
Due to the current situation with the coronavirus, meetings have been cancelled for the time being. There are various online events and details can be found by clicking on 'Events 2020"
The AGM has been cancelled but annual reports can be read by clicking on "Committee Meeting Minutes'
The next 'Zoom' meeting is Tuesday 2nd March at 7pm
‘Wild wetlands and domestic drylands? Human-environment interaction in the prehistoric East Anglian Fens’ by Floor Huismann. Tuesday 2nd March, 7pm
This talk will be delivered live via Zoom from Drents in the Netherlands.
If you would like to attend, please send an email to feaginfo@gmail.com
We will send you a link to the talk a couple of days before the talk. Please do get in touch if you would like to attend.
Bradley Fen reconstruction (from Pattern and Process: Knight and Brudenell 2020)
Many people will have heard of the famous Late Bronze Age pile dwelling settlement of Must Farm, located near Peterborough. This well-preserved wetland village could be a one-off, or it may represent one of many similar settlements in the ‘deep fens’. To better understand wetland settlements and their inhabitants, we need to consider sites like Must Farm in their wider setting, both nearby Fenland and more distant dryland.
In this talk, Floor Huisman will tell us about her research on later prehistoric wetland sites and communities in the East Anglian Fens through an examination of past human-environment interactions. This involved study of domestic and wild plants and animals at 145 sites in wetlands, drylands and the fen edge to understand how people interacted with the ever-expanding fens over time (Neolithic to Iron Age). Over time, and in response to environmental change and social factors, people exploited the wetland in different ways. This highlights the complex interaction between people and environment in and around this Fens, which was an integrated part of the wider landscape.
Floor Huisman is a landscape archaeologist with a keen interest how people in the past interacted with wetland landscapes and how this influenced their social life. She has degrees from Durham and Cambridge Universities and did her PhD at Durham University. She then worked as a Research Assistant for the Cambridge Archaeological Unit for one year, before returning to the Netherlands, where she is now Curator of Archaeology at the Drents Museum in the Netherlands, which has a rich wetland collection (including many bog bodies and other bog finds). She is also a Research Assistant on the Wet Futures project at Wageningen University.
For updates and more information about FEAG go to https://feagblog.wordpress.com/ and www.feag.co.uk/
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/