{"id":7872,"date":"2024-03-20T15:06:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T15:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=7872"},"modified":"2024-03-20T15:06:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T15:06:23","slug":"britains-pompeii-very-well-preserved-bronze-age-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/britains-pompeii-very-well-preserved-bronze-age-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Britain&#8217;s Pompeii&#8221;: Very Well-Preserved Bronze Age Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This isn&#8217;t what I&#8217;m writing about this week, but it&#8217;s worth noting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Must_Farm_Bronze_Age_settlement\">Must Farm Bronze Age settlement<\/a><br>Wikipedia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Part of a Bronze Age settlement was uncovered at Must Farm quarry, at Whittlesey, near Peterborough, in Cambridgeshire, England. The site has been described as &#8216;Britain&#8217;s Pompeii&#8217; due to its relatively good condition, including the &#8216;best-preserved Bronze Age dwellings ever found&#8217; there, which all appear to have been abandoned suddenly following a catastrophic fire. Research now suggests that the site was less than one year old at the time of destruction&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And see:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arch.cam.ac.uk\/research\/projects\/current-projects\/must-farm-project\">Must Farm Project<\/a><br>Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mustfarm.com\/\">Must Farm<\/a><br>Cambridge Archeological Unit, Forterra, Historic England, University of Cambridge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Now I&#8217;d better get back to work on this week&#8217;s post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t what I&#8217;m writing about this week, but it&#8217;s worth noting: Must Farm Bronze Age settlementWikipedia &#8220;Part of a Bronze Age settlement was uncovered at Must Farm quarry, at Whittlesey, near Peterborough, in Cambridgeshire, England. The site has been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/britains-pompeii-very-well-preserved-bronze-age-settlement\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"Very brief description of Must Farm archaeological site, links to more information.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"Britain's Pompeii: Must Farm, a Well-Preserved Bronze Age Settlement","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[57,27],"class_list":["post-7872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discursive-detours","tag-archaeology","tag-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Dwtw-22Y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7874,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872\/revisions\/7874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}