Finds from 'Pompeii of the Fens' offer glimpse of life in bronze age Cambridgeshire

Abronze age settlement built on stilts that dropped "like a coffee plunger" into a river after a catastrophic fire has provided a window on our past lives, according to the archaeologist who led the investigation of the Cambridgeshire site.

- Harriet Sherwood

Must Farm, nicknamed the "Pompeii of the Fens", offers "exceptional clarity" because of a combination of charring and water logging, said Mark Knight, of Cambridge University's archaeological unit.

Today two open-access publications are being launched that comprehensively detail the finds from the excavation at a working brick clay quarry. Next month some of the preserved objects will go on display at Peterborough Museum in an exhibition that tells the story of bronze age life in the short-lived settlement and its discovery almost 3,000 years later.