'Britain's Pompeii' - fascinating archaeology

(Hope this placement is as good as any for this topic ... if it should be elsewhere I'm sure someone will move it)

Did you see or hear of this fascinating archaeological project escavating a site in Cambridgeshire. The degree of detail they have found is amazing - textiles, beads, food still in pottery etc.

No real need for globetrotting - we have a wealth of history here

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Wow! It will be fascinating to hear how the excavation progresses.

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Wonderful! I wish I could go and poke around there. How amazing that it was all preserved so well because it was under water! I would have thought it would have had the opposite effect and rotted everything organic.

I suppose they'll do a decent BBC tv series about it. Fingers crossed.

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Yes indeed, fingers crossed

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Some terrific pics of the finds especially the fabric made from plant fibres

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-35280290

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Love archaeology. Seeing where humankind were helps us understand what we've become. This is a beautiful site. Rich.
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The latest news on the site

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Sounds exciting. I'll be very interested to hear what they find.

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Love this sort of thing. Remember taking groups of kids to the Yorvick site in York when they were excavating and the archeologists talking about how they went about a dig like that.

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A complete Bronze Age wheel believed to be the largest and earliest of its kind found in the UK has been unearthed.

The 3,000-year-old artefact was found at a site dubbed "Britain's Pompeii", at Must Farm in Cambridgeshire.

Archaeologists have described the find - made close to the country's "best-preserved Bronze Age dwellings" - as "unprecedented".

Still containing its hub, the 3ft-diameter (one metre) wooden wheel dates from about 1,100 to 800 BC.

The wheel was found close to the largest of one of the roundhouses found at the settlement last month.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-35598578