This is a view of some of the preserved in situ timbers on show in the Preservation Hall at Flag Fen Bronze Age Centre. Five rows of posts ran along this one kilometre long 'post alignment'. The post alignment ran across an area of wet boggy and flooded marshland. At the wettest point, a wooden platorm was constructed around the post alignment, covering an area of one hectare. The wooden platform was built close to the timbers in the preservation hall. The timbers of the post alignment and platform have been dated using dendrochonology (dating method using libraries of tree ring patterns) to between 1300 BC and 955 BC - the mid to late British Bronze Age.
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