"Best-preserved Bronze Age dwellings ever found in Britain"

[Imperial Dave]

 

[Patrick Waterson]

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

(Sorry)

[Imperial Dave]

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

[Tim]

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).

[Duncan Head]

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:

Appleby'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.

[Imperial Dave]

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.'

[Erpingham]

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.

[Imperial Dave]

another article on this

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

[Jim Webster]

Weapons galore, by the sound of it.

a happy laughing people 

[Erpingham]

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.

[Imperial Dave]

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

[Denis Grey]

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.

[Imperial Dave]

thanks for the heads up Denis

[Denis Grey]

Just a reminder about tonight's programme.

[Imperial Dave]

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

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