Archeologists are excavating a 3,000 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 neat round hole 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 sample