Must Farm Bronze Age Settlement

Must Farm is a Bronze Age archaeological site consisting of five houses raised on stilts above a river built around 950 BC in Cambridgeshire [1]. The settlement is exceptionally well preserved because of its sudden destruction by catastrophic fire and subsequent collapse onto oxygen-depleted river silts [1]. The site is on the bed of a now-defunct river in Flag Fen basin [1]. Between 2011 and 2012, eight Bronze Age log boats were discovered [1]. The boats were found in a small freshwater palaeochannel and were preserved because of waterlogging [1]. Radiocarbon dating has indicated that the ages of these boats spanned a period of about 1,000 years, with the earliest examples dating to around 1750–1650 BC [1]. In 2019 researchers at Cambridge and Bristol universities revealed the results of a study of human and dog coprolites found at the site [1].