Bronze Age Wooden Wheel Adds to List of Surprising Finds at Must Farm

Bronze Age Wooden Wheel Adds to List of Surprising Finds at Must Farm   http://bit.ly/1KzIXzs

At the Must Farm Bronze Age site in England archaeologists have now turned up a wooden wheel to add to other significant finds there, including vitrified food and well-preserved textiles, wooden platters, spears, knives, tools, and jewelry.

Archaeologists were excited about the find at the site, which is the best-preserved homestead of the Bronze Age in Britain.

Three Bronze Age dwellings were burned in a fire and collapsed from their stilts into a river below about 3,000 years ago. Some news reports call the site England’s Pompeii, but it has none of the spectacular stone-hewn architecture and dramatic tableaus frozen by the Italian volcano that erupted in 79 AD. However, researchers have found contents of the houses preserved in “astonishing detail” in the fen (a type of wetland). The houses themselves are among the best-preserved Bronze Age dwellings ever found in Britain.

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