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'Best-preserved Bronze Age dwellings ever found'

Archaeologists say Bronze Age homes excavated near Whittlesey are of "international importance".

The circular wooden houses, built on stilts, form part of a settlement at Must Farm quarry and date to about 1000-800 BC.

A fire destroyed the posts, causing the houses to fall into a river where silt helped preserve the contents.

The site has been described as Britain's "Pompeii" and the "best-preserved Bronze Age dwellings ever found" in the country.

Jo Black reports.

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