About the event

Exploring the exceptional organic artefacts and environmental evidence preserved in the peatlands of the East Anglian Fens.

The wet and deeply stratified sediments of the Fens are a key environmental archaeological resource. In this talk, we introduce the Fenscapes project and explain our approaches to characterising and synthesising data for sedimentological, biological and cultural archaeological remains. We highlight the specific importance and fragility of peat for preserving environmental archaeological data and aim to illustrate the relevance of our results beyond the archaeological sector.

Presenters: Drs Rachel Ballantyne, Phil Stastney & Neal Payne, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.

Fens East Peat Partnership

This webinar is one of a series on lowland peat restoration topics organised by Fens East Peat Partnership (FEPP) and Natural England. Case studies and presentations include information gained through the FEPP NCPGS Discovery Project and current NCPGS Restoration Project where 14 sites are undertaking peat restoration in the lowland Fens of Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk.

Recordings of previous webinars in the series are available here: Fens East Peat Partnership (FEPP) and Natural England lowland peat in the Fens webinar series - YouTube.