3,000-year-old homes found in silt in English river

By Harry Mount for Daily Mail and Richard Gray for MailOnline

Two Bronze Age homes built on wooden stilts five feet above a river have been unearthed in an extraordinary archaeological excavation that promises to provide new insights into the way ancient Britons lived.

It is thought the buildings were destroyed by a fire around 1000-800 BC, causing them to collapse into the River Nene in Whittlesey, near Peterborough, where they were preserved in the thick silt.

Archaeologists who have scraped away more than six feet of mud to reach the 3,000 year old settlement, say the ancient tragedy has provided them with two of the best-preserved Bronze Age houses ever found in Britain

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3396219/Pompeii-Fens-best-preserved-Bronze-age-home-Britain-Experts-astonished-dwelling-s-condition-unearth-treasures-3-000-year-old-rugs-jewellery-human-remains.html#ixzz3x5v2S8CY

Lots of pictures.