Resumen de Down by the riverside:: exploring Iron Age rituals in the Fens
For more than 20 years, Cambridge Archaeological Unit has been excavating fields lining either side of the Great Ouse, at Barleycroft Farm and Over, in the Cambridgeshire Fens. This cluster of ancient mid-river islands and ridges turns out to house surprising secrets: they seem to have been the focus of some intriguing Iron Age mortuary practices involving human body parts and bird sacrifice, as Chris Catling now reports.
