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Bronze Age Site - the "British Pompeii"

An excavation at Flag Fen Archaeology Park, near Peterborough, is yielding wonderful things (including textiles and such spectacularly unspectacular items as a spool of thread). The site is a wet preserved Bronze Age settlement, with outstanding preservation. And it gets even better (well, for the archaeologists, not for the settlers back then) - the two buildings caught fire and collapsed into the Fens so quickly that almost everything was left in situ - a little like Pompeii, earning the place the nickname of Peterborough Pompeii.

This includes said spool of thread and even pots that still contain food - which is an utterly major "wow" for any archaeologist or historian interested in food. I do hope there'll be results from an analysis soon, helping us get a much better idea of how a Bronze Age meal could have looked like. Isn't that wonderful?

 
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Catherine Raymond (website) on Tuesday, 19 January 2016 21:47

A full Bronze Age meal in situ! And a period spool of thread? It doesn't get much better than that, for archaeology geeks. Thanks for sharing the link.

A full Bronze Age meal in situ! And a period spool of thread? It doesn't get much better than that, for archaeology geeks. Thanks for sharing the link.
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