Probable trephination of five Early Saxon skulls

Abstract

A N T I Q U I T Y astonishingly complete picture of extinct rivers, not only the major channels but also the minor tributaries that reach to every part of the Fen.This conjures up a vivid picture of the conditions of the fens before the seventeenth century drainage.An interesting comparison may be made between FIG.I and Hayward's map of 1604, perhaps the earliest surviving survey of the Fens showing any degree of detail (Hayward, 1604).The map shows the state of the Fens before the great drainage schemes, and readily enables many of the principal waterways to be identified on air photographs.The main river in the upper right-hand quadrant of FIG.I is a part of the natural course of the Ouse, the old 'West Water', to use the name adopted on Hayward's map and in Blaeu's survey (Blaeu,

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