Historiography &c Fieldwork: Wyman Abbott's Great Fengate Ring-Ditch (a Lost Manuscript Found)

摘要

This paper presents findings within Wyman Abbott's long-missing notebooks and other allied archival sources ng to Ins Fengate fieldwork during the early decades of the 20th century, Largely focusing upon its ijnents, we here publish a manuscript concerned with his extraordinary, multiple-interment 'great' ring-ivhich is otherwise known from a paragraph's description in Hawkes and Fell's Antiquaries Journal paper '45 Not only do these sources contribute to the further reconstruction of Fengate's renowned Bronze Age cape, but, it is argued, the centralised multiple-lineage interment evident at his main ring-ditch site may reflect upon the social organisation which also gave rise to Pryor's equally 'special' Flag Fen platform.