The Must Farm pile-dwelling settlement

• Autores: Mark Knight, Rachel Ballantyne, Iona Robinson Zeki, David Gibson
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 93, Nº 369, 2019, págs. 645-663
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The Must Farm pile-dwelling site is an extraordinarily well-preserved Late Bronze Age settlement in Cambridgeshire, UK. The authors present the site's contextual setting, from its construction, occupation and subsequent destruction by fire in relatively quick succession. A slow-flowing watercourse beneath the pile-dwellings provided a benign burial environment for preserving the debris of construction, use and collapse, while the catastrophic manner of destruction introduced a definitive timeframe. The scale of its occupation speaks to the site's exceptional nature, enabling the authors to deduce the everyday flow and use of things in a prehistoric domestic setting.