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The 'Pompeii of the Fens' is the oldest wheel in Britain. A team of scientists has hit upon the wheel at a Bronze Age site, according to the Daily Mail.

Though it is said to be more than three millennia old, this wooden wheel is the "most complete wheels ever found in Britain". It was used on a cart moved by many people or a horse.

"What you see behind us is a wheel. Previously in the UK if we could point to a wheel we only had one panel," said Cambridge University archaeologist Mark Knight. "This is complete and appears to have its axle inside its hub, it's a wheel made of planks, of wood braced together with a reinforced hub in the center. It's the most complete, oldest, largest wheel found in the UK."

Being 3 feet in diameter, the wheel was discovered in a quarry pit at the Must Farm project in Peterborough. The artifacts were sourced from a settlement that seem to have been burnt in either an accident or through force.

Just like Italy's Pompeii, the site has similar unearthed remnants overwhelmed by ash.

The archaeology project is said to cost about $1.5 million, according to CNN.

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