Bronze age objects from ‘Pompeii of the Fens’ to go on display

An array of bronze age pots found at the Must Farm quarry excavation site in Cambridgeshire. Photograph: Cambridge Archaeological Unit/PA

A bronze 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 that led the investigation of the Cambridgeshire site.

Must Farm, nicknamed the Pompeii of the Fens, offers “exceptional clarity” because of a combination of charring and waterlogging, said Mark Knight, of Cambridge University’s archaeological unit.