Archaeologists Dig Up Farmland Only To Discover A 3,000-Year-Old Bronze-Age Village
Channel: watchJojo
Date: 21/02/2018

The discovery was made at Must Farm quarry, near Peterborough, in an area known as “Britain’s Pompeii” due to its pristine condition that can be attributed to waterlogging. Archaeologists believe the site was suddenly abandoned following a catastrophic fire in 800BC, meaning the moment has been captured in time. Wooden posts were first spotted in the area in 1999, leading to preliminary excavations in 2004 and 2006 but, in September 2015, the University of Cambridge began a full-scale dig covering 1,100 square metres, funded by Historic England.



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