Flag Fen, Bronze Age archaeological open-air museum in Peterborough, England.
Flag Fen is an archaeological open-air museum in Peterborough, England, displaying the remains of a prehistoric timber structure built across wetlands. The site covers a former marshy area and includes reconstructed roundhouses alongside original finds from between 1350 and 950 BC.
Archaeologists discovered the site in 1971 during preparatory work for building Peterborough New Town. Excavations revealed a timber causeway built roughly three thousand years ago to connect an island to the mainland.
The museum exhibits numerous Bronze Age artifacts, including weapons, jewelry, ancient tools, and England's oldest preserved wooden wheel from prehistoric times.
Visitors can walk along a lakeside path while viewing the reconstructed dwellings and a Roman herb garden. Electric buggies are available for people with limited mobility to explore the grounds comfortably.
The marsh preserved one of England's oldest surviving wooden wheels, shaped by craftsmen over three thousand years ago. Waterlogged soil also protected tools, weapons and jewelry that would normally have decayed in the ground.
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