“Britain’s Pompeii” Must Farm Bronze Age exhibition to extend run at Peterborough Museum
“Britain’s Pompeii” Must Farm Bronze Age exhibition to extend run at Peterborough Museum
A major report on the remains of a stilt village that was engulfed in flames almost 3,000 years ago reveals in unprecedented detail the daily lives of England’s prehistoric fenlanders. Must Farm, a late Bronze Age settlement, dates to around 850 BC, with University of Cambridge archaeologists une
WaPo has a decent overview if the whole academic volume isn't your thing
Must read #archeology for British #BronzeAge fans!
(Also this may be the first time I've encountered > 1gb PDFs in the wild, but image quality seems quite adequate in the reduced size version)
https://www.mustfarm.com/bronze-age-settlement/publications/
The Guardian
Bronze age objects from ‘Pompeii of the Fens’ to go on display
Settlement on stilts dropped into River Nene after a fire nearly 3,000 years ago and was preserved in silt
Harriet Sherwood
Wed 20 Mar 2024 01.00 EDT
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"Analysis of preserved food remains showed the settlement’s inhabitants were eating meat stews, dumplings and bread, chops of pork and lamb, and – possibly – honey-basted venison. Personal items recovered included decorated textiles and exotic glass beads."
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/20/bronze-age-objects-from-pompeii-of-the-fens-must-farm-cambridgeshire