The specimen, dating from 1,100–800 years BCE, represents the most complete and earliest of its type found in Britain. The wheel's hub is also present. A horse's spine found nearby suggests the wheel may have been part of a horse-drawn cart. The find "expands our understanding of late Bronze Age technology", said Duncan Wilson, chief executive of Historic England, which was co-funding the project. , the archaeology had been removed and the site reburied to be left sealed. In 2019 researchers at Cambridge and Bristol universities revealed the results of a study of human and dog coprolites found at the site. They discovered the presence of fish tapeworms, echinostoma worms, capillaria worms and giant kidney worms. The research shows the earliest evidence of human infection by these parasites in Britain. The dig was the subject of a BBC Television documentary, "Britain's Pompeii: A Village Lost in Time", first broadcast on BBC Four on 2 August 2016. These artefacts from Must Farm were photographed at Peterborough Museum in July 2017: