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Submitted by Andy B on Friday, 03 November 2017  Page Views: 3123

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Fiskerton Iron Age causeway
Country: England County: Lincolnshire Type: Ancient Village or Settlement

Map Ref: TF05007159
Latitude: 53.230979N  Longitude: 0.428455W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
1 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
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no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Fiskerton Iron Age causeway
Fiskerton Iron Age causeway submitted by Bladup : The area where the Fiskerton Iron Age causeway was found, A lot of La Tène Iron finds were found on the North and South side of the North Delph (the small river in the photo, The main River Witham is out of shot right behind) (Vote or comment on this photo)
Part of an Iron Age causeway roughly dated to 600BC at its earliest, was excavated south of Fiskerton on the north bank of the river Witham in 1981. Posts were set vertically into the soft ground in clusters forming two roughly parallel lines, 4m apart, and perpendicular to the river.

Lying between the posts were horizontal timbers which had been pegged into the ground forming a firm walkway over the boggy ground. There were two major phases of repair where vertical timbers had been replaced and when the horizontals rotted they had been consolidated with a layer of limestone chips.

Finds include bone needles, pottery, and domestic and military metalwork, four axes and a hammer, a file with a decorated bone handle and a pruning hook. Four iron swords, two in scabbards, three socketed iron spear heads, and various items of horse furniture were also recovered. This leads to speculation about the importance of the causeway. It may have been a main route across the river which needed defending.

Further investigation of the Fiskerton causeway to the north of the River Witham was conducted in 2007. Four trial trenches were excavated to assess the preservation of the monument, and the impact of land management changes over the previous 25 years on the remains. The study concluded that although previous ploughing regimes have caused an appreciable loss of stratigraphy and destruction to the monument, the lower deposits survived in good condition. It was recommended that timbers recovered in the investigation should be subjected to high precision radiocarbon dating, to help clarify the construction sequence and relationships of the various causeway elements.

Source: Lincolnshire HER
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Fiskerton Iron Age causeway
Fiskerton Iron Age causeway submitted by Bladup : The Fiskerton Iron Age causeway was found 45m down from this bridge, A lot of La Tène Iron finds were found here. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Fiskerton Iron Age causeway
Fiskerton Iron Age causeway submitted by Bladup : The area where the Fiskerton Iron Age causeway was found, A lot of La Tène Iron finds were found on the North and South side of the North Delph (the small river in the photo, The main River Witham is out of shot on the Left) (Vote or comment on this photo)

Fiskerton Iron Age causeway
Fiskerton Iron Age causeway submitted by Bladup : The area where the Fiskerton Iron Age causeway was found. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Treasures Of The Celtic Causeway - The Fiskerton Logboat by Andy B on Friday, 03 November 2017
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A long article about the excavations here, from 2002
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art12215

The boat is on show in 'The Collection' Lincoln
The site was once a timber causeway, used during the Iron Age by the Corieltavi tribe to deposit valuable objects into the waters as religious offerings. This complete boat was made from a single oak tree truck, and still bears axe marks from its manufacture. It was deliberately sunk as an offering and may have been specially made for this purpose.
https://www.thecollectionmuseum.com/visiting-us/exhibit/fiskerton-log-boat

Photo of the boat here Religion in Britain from the Megaliths to Arthur: An Archaeological and Mythological Exploration - Robin Melrose

Lincs to the Past (pun groan)
https://www.lincstothepast.com/Fiskerton-Causeway/234121.record?pt=S
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Re: Fiskerton Iron Age causeway by Andy B on Friday, 03 November 2017
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Ric writes: I have recently (2013) been looking at the Witham River in Lincolnshire and came across the following reference which seems to draw on the work of Clive L. N. Ruggles:

"the Fiskerton causeway was periodically maintained by adding new posts, and that the felling dates span a period of over a century, from 457 b.c.e. to 339 b.c.e. It appears that the felling took place predominantly in the winter or early spring, and that few if any timbers were seasoned before use—in other words, they were put into use within a year. Remarkably, the causeway uprights seem to have been felled—and, by implication, placed—at regular intervals of between sixteen and eighteen years.

"Given the evident sacred significance of the site, an obvious possibility is that the regular episodes of major refurbishment—likely accompanied by due ritualistic observances—were astronomically regulated. "

http://what-when-how.com/ancient-astronomy/fiskerton/

The suggestion here is that this ritual causeway was repaired according to the lunar Saros series although it is not understood how non-literate people in the Iron Age could have made such complex computations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saros_(astronomy)#Saros_series

"However, in this case the apparent regularity of the interval between the bursts of activity at Fiskerton would have to be fortuitous, since people would have had no way to distinguish only those eclipses from particular Saros series."

http://what-when-how.com/ancient-astronomy/fiskerton/

Nevertheless, station or no, we appear to have yet another incidence of the ritual observance of the moon here in Britain, in this case in Lincolnshire.

Ric

Further discussion here
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=Forum&file=viewtopic&topic=5294&forum=4&start=760&desktop=true

The lunar eclipse idea seems to have originated from Dr. Mike Parker Pearson & Dr. Andrew Chamberlain (University of Sheffield) Lunar Eclipse Prediction in the La Tène Period at the Fiskerton Timber Causeway http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=2146411636
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    Re: Fiskerton Iron Age causeway by Andy B on Friday, 03 November 2017
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    Ruggles' commnets on Fiskerton “Unfortunately, this appealing
    conclusion may not be as clear-cut as it seems. For one thing, the
    fact that one lunar eclipse may be prominently visible does not necessarily
    mean that the next one in the given Saros series will be prominent as well;
    the successor may, for example, occur below the horizon during the daytime.

    Second, many different Saros cycles, running concurrently, produce
    eclipses from one year to the next. Third, some lunar eclipses will be missed
    on cloudy nights. In the absence of any form of counting or recording, the
    occurrence of total lunar eclipses observed from any given location could
    not seem anything but entirely irregular.” and “However, in this case the
    apparent regularity of the interval between the bursts of activity at
    Fiskerton would have to be fortuitous, since people would have had no way to
    distinguish only those eclipses from particular Saros series. Further evidence
    and statistical analysis may clarify some of these issues. “

    With thanks to George for the snippet
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