This paper presents findings within Wyman Abbott's long-missing
notebooks and other allied archival sources relating to his Fengate
fieldwork during the early decades of the 20th century. Largely focusing
upon its monuments, we here publish a manuscript concerned with his
extraordinary, multiple-interment 'great' ringditch which is otherwise known
from a paragraph's description in Hawkes and Fell's Antiquaries Jourual
paper of 1945. Not only do these sources contribute to the further
reconstruction of Fengate's renowned Bronze Age landscape, but, it is
argued, the centralised multiple-lineage interment evident at his main
ring-ditch site may well reflect upon the social organisation which also
gave rise to Pryor's equally 'special' Flag Fen platform.
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