Popular Peterborough ‘Britain’s Pompeii’ display extends run

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Popular Peterborough ‘Britain’s Pompeii’ display extends run

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The free exhibition of 3,000-year-old artefacts has attracted the museum’s biggest visitor numbers for eight years

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The display tells the story of how rapidly a ***** took hold of the settlement, which archaeologists said was less than a year old

The exhibition, which

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, has attracted the museum’s highest visitor numbers for eight years.

The artefacts were unearthed at a Bronze Age settlement of wooden roundhouses built over a river channel at Must Farm at Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire.

Domestic items were deposited into the river silt after the settlement caught *****, where they remained until they were excavated eight years ago.

Fleeing villagers left behind the largest collection of Bronze Age artefacts ever discovered in the ***, including 200 wooden objects, more than 150 fibre and textile items, 128 pottery vessels and about 90 pieces of metalwork.

The excavation’s discoveries are of national importance, yet its finds are staying local, about eight miles (12km) from where they were found.

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Those fleeing the ***** left behind artefacts including striking glass beads in blue, green and turquoise

Exhibits include Bronze Age pottery fragments painstakingly recreated to reveal cooking ware and fine cups and bowls and a **** with a preserved, freshly cooked meal inside.

Tony Callandine, Historic England’s east regional director, said the organisation was delighted it could support an extended run of the exhibition.

“Seeing objects that were used for cooking and everyday home life so long ago stirs the imagination and brings communities from the past closer to us today,” he said.

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Replicas, such as the eel trap (above), are displayed alongside everyday work tools and fish and animal bones

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