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OPECIAL interest is attached to a report on the investigation of an Early Bronze Age settlement site on Plantation Farm, Shippea Hill, seven miles east-north-east of Ely, which appears in the Antiquaries Journal, 13, No. 3. It is the firstfruits of the activities of the Fenland Research Committee, which was founded in 1932 under the presidency of Prof. A. C. Seward with the object of studying the fens, as an area affording opportunities unrivalled in Britain for investigating post-glacial changes of environment in relation to man. An essential feature in the Committee's scheme of research was to secure the co-operation of specialists in the different sciences. How far this has been carried out may be seen in the report under consideration, in which Mr. Grahame Clark is responsible for the account of the site and the archaeological data, the investigation of the peat deposits and the analysis of the contained pollens has devolved on Dr. H. and Mrs. M. E. Godwin, Dr. W. A. Macfadyen reports on the foramini-fera of the silts and clay, Dr. Wilfrid Jackson on animal remains and Mr. A. S. Kennard on the Mollusca.
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Early Bronze Age Site in the South-Eastern Fens. Nature 132, 575–576 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132575a0
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