FENS: DISCOVERING ENGLANDS ANCIENT DEPTHS (PB)

For some forty years Francis Pryor has dug the soils of the Fens of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire working as an archaeologist and raising sheep in the flower-growing country between Spalding and Wisbech. In this book, he counterpoints the history of the Fenland landscape and its transformation - from Bronze age field systems to Iron Age hillforts; from the rise of prosperous towns such as King's Lynn, Ely and Cambridge to the ambitious drainage projects that created the Old and New Bedford Rivers.