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Index
Cover
Welcome Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Map
Prologue: Everything Comes Out in the Wash
Chapter 1: Cambridge: My Introduction to the Fens
Chapter 2: Fengate: Approaching the Wet from the Dry
Chapter 3: Haddenham: Prehistory Pickled in Peat
Chapter 4: Cropmarks and the Welland Valley
Chapter 5: Etton: Perfect Preservation
Chapter 6: Flag Fen: Wetlands Revealed
Chapter 7: Must Farm: At Last, a ‘Lake Village’
Chapter 8: Borough Fen: A Hillfort Lurking Beneath the Surface
Chapter 9: Billingborough Iron Age: Salt and Farming in the Northern Fens
Chapter 10: Castor: A Roman Palace with Saxon Prospects
Chapter 11: Devil’s Dyke and Reach Lode: Pre-Norman boundaries that shaped the Medieval Fens
Chapter 12: Ely Abbey and Cathedral Church: The Ship of the Fens
Chapter 13: Tattershall Castle: The Saving of England’s Past
Chapter 14: Small Towns and the Gentlemen of Spalding
Chapter 15: Cambridge: Rationality and Fen Drainage
Chapter 16: The Holme Fen Post: The Drainage of the Deepest Peatlands
Chapter 17: Wisbech: Enlightened Bankers on the Brinks
Chapter 18: Wicken, Welney and Willow Tree: Modern Attitudes to Fen Conservation
Epilogue: Farewell to Boston
Notes
Acknowledgements
Image credits
About the Fens
An Invitation from the Publisher
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