Monthly Archives: June 2012

Bronze sword

Posted on June 8, 2012 by mfuser

Wilburton type sword found with rivets and fragment of lead pommel.

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Grooved Ware Potsherds

Posted on June 8, 2012 by mfuser

Sherds of Grooved Ware pottery from a small pit which also contained Auroch and Wild Boar bones. The pottery adds to a growing collection of ‘dry’ occupation debris buried beneath the peat … read more

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Fish weir

Posted on June 8, 2012 by mfuser

One of series of V-shaped barriers or weirs that crossed the course of the channel. The weirs were constructed off-site as long sections of hurdles before being slotted into position using deeply … read more

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Logboat (Boat 8)

Posted on June 8, 2012 by mfuser

Length 4.78m; Width 0.42m; Depth 0.10m

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Logboat (Boat 7)

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Length 2.25m; Width 0.56m; Depth 0.15m.

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Logboat (Boat 6)

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Length 6.25m; Width 0.71m; Depth 0.31m

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Logboat (Boat 5)

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Length 3.94m; Width 0.35m; Depth 0.25m.

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Fish bone

Posted on June 8, 2012 by mfuser

Along with the fish weirs and fish traps the evidence for fishing included the skeletal remains of Pike, Perch, Carp and Smelt. Caches of pike mandibles replete with large sharp teeth were … read more

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Peterborough Ware Bowl

Posted on June 8, 2012 by mfuser

Small undecorated bowl (20cm diameter) found beside a crouched inhumation situated at the centre of an Oval Barrow. The barrow survived intact beneath the peat and was encircled by a causewayed ring-ditch.

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Fish trap

Posted on June 8, 2012 by mfuser

One of eighteen traps identified within the Must Farm palaeochannel. Though to be a Eel trap on the basis of its closed-weave design and by historical precedent.

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Crouched burial

Posted on June 8, 2012 by mfuser

Crouched burial located at the centre of a Oval Barrow situated along the northern edge of the Neolithic course of the River Nene. The barrow was completely buried beneath the peat and … read more

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Logboat (Boat 4)

Posted on June 8, 2012 by mfuser

Length 8.42m; Width 0.85m; Depth 0.12m

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Logboat (Boat 3)

Posted on June 8, 2012 by mfuser

Possibly the earliest known example of a transom-built boat in the UK found at the bottom of the Must Farm channel. Length 4.34m; Width 0.70m; Depth 0.30m.

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Animal tracks

Posted on June 8, 2012 by mfuser

Mass of cloven-hoof prints cutting the old land surface at the bottom of the Flag Fen Basin; cow, pig and deer prints have been identified although the former (cow and pig) might … read more

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Dead hedge

Posted on June 8, 2012 by mfuser

Preserved wooden fence lines or ‘dead-hedges’. The stake & brushwood built boundaries delineated a series of small paddocks located along the increasingly wet Early Bronze Age river valley.

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Ash palisade

Posted on June 8, 2012 by mfuser

‘Pencil-point’ posts forming a palisaded enclosure around a raised settlement over the channel. Wood chips derived from the making of the sharpened ends were found preserved close by.

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Bronze sickle

Posted on June 8, 2012 by mfuser

Bronze cast sickle found amongst the charred remains of a raised settlement situated above the channel. One of several bronze tools (awls, punches, gouges, chisels etc) deposited along with the rest of … read more

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Bronze spearhead

Posted on June 8, 2012 by mfuser

The charred remains of the spear shaft was found still lodged inside the spearhead socket illustrating that it too was a victim of the inferno that destroyed the settlement.

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Logboat (Boat 2)

Posted on June 8, 2012 by mfuser

Small double prow-built logboat complete with puddled-clay repairs. This boat was found atop of a collapsed fish weir. Length 5.44m; Width 0.68m; Depth 0.23m

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Iron Age Potsherd

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Rim sherds of small Early Iron Age jar found in channel sediments.  

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Tin cone

Posted on June 8, 2012 by mfuser

Small diameter tin cone with serrated base; shield boss or helmet fitting?

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Logboat (Boat 1)

Posted on June 8, 2012 by mfuser

Latest or highest situated of the logboats, Boat 1 was the first to be discovered. Uniquely, ‘decoration’ in the form of incised cross-hatching adorned the sides of the vessel, both internally and … read more

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Bronze spearhead

Posted on June 8, 2012 by mfuser

Bronze spearhead still attached to its wooden shaft. The shaft measured almost exactly 2m in length.

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Iron sword

Posted on June 8, 2012 by mfuser

La Tene II type sword complete with wooden handle (spindle) and scabbard (willow)

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