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Then they had to work out what to do with the sheep and the women ...

(Sorry)

another update and this time with a nice picture of a spear head so yes weapons now found!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-36778820

Though not on the website, on BBC's breakfast programme today, I caught a brief item that included a sword.  Was not able to see it for too long but was of a shape similar to what I have seen described as Cogotas II type swords (I am no expert - I would recognise a La Tene sword and that is about it).

Quote from: Holly on July 14, 2016, 06:54:54 AM
another update and this time with a nice picture of a spear head so yes weapons now found!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-36778820

From the Graun at https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jul/14/uks-best-bronze-age-site-must-farm-dig-ends-analyis-continue-years:

QuoteAppleby's moment of disbelief came when Knight rang him to say they'd found a complete spear. "Yeah mate, we've got loads of those," he replied ungenerously. No, Knight insisted, the whole spear. "You've got the stick bit too?" Appleby asked, abandoning scientific terms in his amazement. He only knows of one other ever found – but three days later Knight rang again to say they had another one.

Weapons galore, by the sound of it.

and even more interestingly

'The scorched timbers and charred thatch are still being studied by a fire investigations expert, Karl Harrison, but his first impressions are that it looks less like an accident started inside a house, and more like a fire deliberately set from outside.'

I liked the sword cut down to form a kitchen knife.  We tend to assume old and broken bronze objects were just melted down but here is a bit of repurposing going on.

another article on this

http://www.livescience.com/55549-bronze-age-village-burned-by-warriors.html

Quote from: Duncan Head on July 14, 2016, 08:49:31 AM



Weapons galore, by the sound of it.

a happy laughing people 

Quote from: Holly on July 27, 2016, 09:35:13 AM
another article on this

http://www.livescience.com/55549-bronze-age-village-burned-by-warriors.html

Certainly raises two of the issues needing explaining - the simultaneous destruction of the village and the apparent lack of salvage operations.

agreed.....did they get killed, were they taken as slaves or did they just abandon the place or a bit of all three?

There is an hour long documentary at 9pm on BBC4 television on Tuesday, 2nd August.  (Repeated at 10pm on Wednesday, 3rd.)  The presenter is Professor Alice Roberts.

thanks for the heads up Denis

Just a reminder about tonight's programme.

http://www.mustfarm.com/bronze-age-river/archaeology/

https://www.facebook.com/MustFarmArchaeology/photos/a.752124374898251.1073741828.751584871618868/926129697497717/?type=3&theater