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Francis Pryor - The Birth Of Modern Britain
09 November 2011
6pm
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On Sale Thursday 22nd September Francis Pryor has spent 30 years studying the prehistory of the Fens. He has excavated sites as diverse as Bronze Age farms, field systems and entire Iron Age villages. From 1980 he turned his attention to pre-Roman religion. In 1982, while working in a drainage dyke at Flag Fen, on the outskirts of Peterborough, he discovered the waterlogged timbers of a Bronze Age religious site. In 1987, with his wife Maisie Taylor, he established the Fenland Archaeological Trust, which opened Flag Fen to the public. A frequent face on Channel 4’s Time Team he is also author of Seahenge , Britain BC, Britain AD and Britain in the Middle Ages.