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Great transformations took place in the Olympic Park during the Middle Bronze Age, starting around 1400 B.C. It seems that, over the course of only a few hundred years, people divided up areas of potentially productive agricultural land into rectangular fields, each surrounded by ditches, and possibly lined with hedges. This transformation is vividly illustrated by the largest trench, dug at the site of the Aquatics Centre, where the archaeologists revealed a clear pattern of field-boundary ditc
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