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Posted on 01/13/2016 8:02:10 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Silty fen preserved burning houses and domestic objects inside them to reveal unprecedented view of life 3,000 years ago.
Almost 3,000 years after being destroyed by fire, the astonishingly well preserved remains of two Bronze Age houses and their contents have been discovered at a quarry site in Peterborough.
The artefacts include a collection of everyday domestic objects unprecedented from any site in Britain, including jewellery, spears, daggers, giant food storage jars and delicate drinking cups, glass beads, textiles and a copper spindle with thread still wound around it.
The remains of the large wooden houses, built on stilts in a waterlogged fenland site beside the ancient course of the river Nene, are the best preserved Bronze Age dwellings ever found in Britain. The most poignant object, suggesting that the last meal in the house was abandoned as the owners fled, was a cooking pot containing a wooden spoon and the remains of food calcified from the heat of the fire.
"It feels almost rude to be intruding," said the site director, Mark Knight. "It doesn't feel like archaeology any more, it feels like somebody's house has burned down and we're going in and picking over their goods."(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Pompeii ping?
Marvelous find.
Ping of possible interest.
Great article, thank you.
IB4TGGGP! Lol.
Thanks Larry Lucido and rdl6989 for the pings. I got lazy the other day and merely put a very minimal link to an article about this -- in another GGG topic.
and from the “too much of a good thing” desk—
Bronze Age kept alight by fire in the fens
Clive Cookson
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0c4b73d4-bfb4-11e5-846f-79b0e3d20eaf.html
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