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Must Farm

Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire

Britain's Pompeii: a stilt village that burned and fell into a river.

Around 850 BC, a small village of roundhouses stood on stilts over a river in the fens. Within a year of being built, it burned down and collapsed into the water.

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When
c. 850 BC
Where
52.5560, -0.1800
Group
Circles & monuments

Visiting

Finds are displayed at Peterborough Museum.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
Read the full story in the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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