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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
Sam Russell

Experts race to start new dig at ancient Bronze Age site before it’s lost to climate change

Archaeologists will begin a new dig at one of Britain’s most important Bronze Age sites next year before information preserved in peat is lost as the ground dries out amid climate change.

The timber causeway at Flag Fen, near Peterborough, was 1.1km long, about 20 metres wide, and had about 22,000 posts, Mark Knight of Cambridge Archaeological Unit said.

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