Must Farm
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Must Farm is a Bronze Age archaeological site consisting of five houses raised on stilts above a river built around 950 BC in Cambridgeshire, England. The settlement is exceptionally well preserved be
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A pair of bronze shears and its wooden box, likely used for cutting textiles. The wooden case indicates that these were highly valued
Bones and scales of pike were found outside the roundhouses, though deer and boar remains were more common at the site
Remains of an eel trap. There were 17 more traps discovered at the site that were well preserved due to the wet silts in which they were found
Roundhouse (dwelling)
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A roundhouse is a type of house with a circular plan, usually with a conical roof. In the later part of the 20th century, modern designs of roundhouse eco-buildings were constructed with materials suc
Must Farm
…England funded a £1.1 million project to excavate the site to gain as much knowledge of Bronze Age life in Britain as possible. Archaeologists found two roundhouses, from about 1000–800 BC, and concluded that they were damaged by fire and that the platform on which they sat then slid into the river, where the fire…
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Reconstruction of a British Iron Age Celtic roundhouse at Butser Ancient Farm
That Roundhouse, constructed in 1997
Reconstruction of a Villanovan hut in the Giardini Margherita, Bologna, Italy