Volunteers sought to help build roundhouse replica

Flag Fen already has two roundhouses, and work will start on a third replica soon

An archaeological park is looking for volunteers to help build a replica of a prehistoric roundhouse.

Flag Fen Archaeology Park, near Peterborough, is an important historical site and popular for its Bronze-age landscape.

The site already has two roundhouses – round structures with pointed thatched roofs where people lived in in prehistoric times.

General manager Jacqui Mooney said the park was looking for as many volunteers as possible to help build a third structure on the site soon.

It will be made using locally-sourced oak, ash, hazel and willow rods and could take up to nine months to complete.

The site is working with City College Peterborough, which is running several courses on making roundhouses, including teaching traditional woodworking skills.

The remains of a stilted wooden causeway built over the marshy landscape sits as a centrepiece at Flag Fen.

Excavation of the causeway began in 1982 when millions of preserved timbers covering more than half a mile (about 0.8km) of fenland were found.