The Bronze Age settlement at Must Farm, unearthed by University of Cambridge archaeologists in Whittlesey, Peterborough, has been described as a “time capsule.”
LONDON — A half-eaten bowl of porridge complete with wooden spoon, communal rubbish bins, and a decorative necklace made with amber and glass beads are just a handful of the extraordinarily well-preserved remnants of a late Bronze Age hamlet unearthed in eastern England that’s been dubbed “Britain’s Pompeii” and a “time capsule” into village life almost 3,000 years ago.
“Because of the nature of the settlement, that it was burned down and its abandonment unplanned, everything was captured,” Knight added. The inhabitants’ diet was also rich and varied, including boar, pike and bream, along with wheat and barley. Although no intact sets of human remains were found at the site, indicating that the inhabitants probably fled the fire safely, several sheep bones were found burned indoors. “Skeletal remains showed the lambs were three to six months old, suggesting the settlement was destroyed sometime in late summer or early autumn,” according to the university’s news release.
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