Excavation starts on 1600 BC Dartmoor home

A team of archaeologists are to start excavating a Bronze Age round house on Dartmoor. The dig in Bellever will explore the entrance and exterior of the home which it is believed farmers lived in. 

At a previous excavation it was found that the round house owners were pastoral farmers [Credit: BBC]

Previous excavations uncovered a paved stone floor, post holes which would have supported a roof and more than 150 shards of pottery. 

Fragments of burnt oak have also been analysed revealing it was occupied for about 400 years, from 1,600BC. 

Source: BBC News Website [July 17, 2011]