Archeologists are excavating a 3000 year-old oak wheel at a site described as the Fenland Pompeii. The wheel,the largest and most well-preserved ever found in the UK, is still attached to its axle and bears scorch-marks from the fire that destroyed the settlement. A natty round gap punched through the wheel was left by a 20th century geologist who inadvertently bored straight through it with no idea of the significance of the timber fragments in his soil samplePerfectly preserved bronze age wheel unearthed in CambridgeshireContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com