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Must Farm is a Bronze Age archaeological site consisting of five houses raised on stilts above a river and built around 950 BC in Cambridgeshire, England. [1] The settlement is exceptionally well preserved because of its sudden destruction by catastrophic fire and subsequent collapse onto oxygen-depleted river silts. [2] [3]
Iron fittings from the bed burial displayed in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge. The bed burial and three other Anglo-Saxon graves were discovered in summer 2011 as part of a series of archaeological excavations carried out by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit of the University of Cambridge in Trumpington Meadows, on the outskirts of the village of Trumpington, within ...
Covering an area of 18 hectares (44 acres), at the time it was the largest archaeological excavation in Europe, [2] and is the largest excavation ever undertaken in the British Isles. [3] Excavation continued year-round to stay ahead of gravel extraction that was rapidly destroying the site, accumulating an "astonishing" volume of material. [4]
The skeletons, which came from a series of archaeological digs that began in the 1970s, date back to between 1000 and 1500. During that medieval era, Cambridge was home to a few thousand people.
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Cambridge: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge University Press, 2001 Haidy Geismar and Anita Herle: Moving images. John Layard , fieldwork and photography on Malakula since 1914 , with contributions by Kirk Huffman and John Layard; Crawford House Publishing Australia, Adelaide in association with University of Cambridge Museum of ...
In 2016 it was being excavated by the University of Cambridge's Cambridge Archaeological Unit. [8] At Must Farm at least five homes of 3,000 years in age have been found, along with Britain's most complete prehistoric wooden wheel, dating back to the late Bronze Age. [9]
The Institute provides support for Cambridge-based researchers in the various branches of archaeology, with a particular interest in the archaeology of early human cognition. The Institute emphasises the value of archaeological science, and contains laboratories for geoarchaeology , archaeozoology , archaeobotany , and artefact analysis.