Dwelling remains of the English "Pompei", a Bronze Age site discovered at Much Farm near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. EXCAVATIONS. A giant Mikado! The extraordinarily well-preserved remains of circular wooden buildings from a 3,000-year-old village - along with many everyday objects - have been unearthed at the Must Farm site near Peterborough, Britain. According to David Gibson, one of the excavations managers of the Archaeological Unit of the University of Cambridge interviewed by the BBC, these round houses, which are believed to be five in number, "are the best preserved of the Bronze Age. (2000-800 BCE) never found in Britain" .
Built on stilts above a river in the Cambridgeshire marshes, they collapsed following a fire around 1000 BCE. They were then gradually covered by deposits of silt, which sealed their protection for centuries. Traces of squaring by the carpenters are still visible on the remains of waterlogged charred beams that specialists are now working to preserve, the organic matter degrading very quickly after their emergence.
Food leftovers too
Wicker baskets, fragments of textiles woven from plant fibers, numerous containers and glass beads were also found in the peat. The researchers even identified food remains in the containers kept inside the houses.
These discoveries complement others already made on the site in 2013, including six dugout boats (carved out of a single trunk) - one of which is nearly nine meters long -, bronze swords and spears.
An English Bronze Age Pompeii
