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1 - Prehistoric Cam Valley

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2023

Stephanie Boyd
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The author considers what attracted hunter-gatherers and Neolithic farmers to the Cam Valley and Cambridge area. The importance of rivers for transport, trade and food is explored. Recent discoveries include the remarkable Bronze Age river settlement on stilts at Must Farm in Cambridgeshire, dubbed the ‘Pompeii of the Fens’. The earliest settlement regarded as Cambridge, as we know it today, was an Iron Age village on Castle Hill. The author looks at why Iron Age people - or Celts - built an enclosed village on this site, and the greater mystery of why a massive hillfort was constructed at Wandlebury.

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Cam ValleyStone ageNeolithicBronze ageIron ageCeltsTrumpington MeadowsMust FarmWandleburyhillfort
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The Story of Cambridge , pp. 4 - 15
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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