Roundhouse (dwelling) - Wikipedia
Roundhouses were the standard form of housing built in Britain and Ireland from the Bronze Age throughout the Iron Age, and in some areas well into the Sub Roman period. The people built walls made of either stone or of wooden posts joined by wattle-and-daub panels, and topped with a conical thatched roof.
UCD Archaeology builds new early Medieval roundhouse after …
2022年2月9日 · A new experimental archaeological early medieval roundhouse has been erected on the grounds of University College Dublin to replace a similarly unique structure destroyed by vandals almost three years ago.
Roundhouse Rises from the Ashes Bringing Medieval Age to Life
2022年11月20日 · During the medieval period in Ireland, rural farming families lived in homes called roundhouses. Made using stone and wood, with straw and oat thatched roofs, the vast majority of people lived in roundhouses, while only local elites occupied hilltop stone castles. Now, a team of Irish students has recreated a medieval roundhouse on their campus ...
Atlantic roundhouse - Wikipedia
In archaeology, an Atlantic roundhouse is an Iron Age stone building found in the northern and western parts of mainland Scotland, the Northern Isles and the Hebrides. Circular houses were the predominant architectural style of the British landscape since …
Roundhouses - Current Archaeology
2008年8月26日 · Roundhouses provide a huge amount of architectural variation, and many design choices relied on which materials were available to people in their immediate landscape setting. There are, however, some clear house types. Ring-banks of stone and turf are features of upland Bronze Age landscapes.
Tiny Homes Of The Ancient World: Celtic Iron Age Roundhouses
In this pilot episode of our Tiny Homes Of The Ancient World series, we travel 2000 years back in time to the Celtic iron-age fort and roundhouses 0f Castell...
Everyday Life in Medieval Ireland: Raths and Round Houses
2020年9月12日 · Professor Aidan O’Sullivan from the Centre of Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture, University College Dublin, talks about everyday life in medieval Ireland and offers insights into the round house the Experimental Archaeology team built.
5.4 How were roundhouses used?
Many ‘houses’ may have had both domestic and non-domestic functions. An increasingly used concept is that of ‘byre-house’ (Harding 2004, 2009), where animals and people cohabited; this has been used in studying Atlantic roundhouses, ring-ditch houses and the stalled structures known as wags (e.g. Baines 1999) at various times.
7.3.5.1 Roundhouses and Simple Atlantic Roundhouses
Roundhouse with inner postring, central hearth, pottery, lithics. Neolithic, Bronze Age and early medieval activity on site. MHG61055 ; Masson-Maclean 2014 ; Sneddon forthcoming
(PDF) O'Sullivan, A., and O'Neill, B. (2019) An experimental ...
The early medieval roundhouse at UCD is directly based on one of the houses uncovered in archaeological excavations at the early medieval rath at Deer Park Farms, Co. Antrim, a site excavated by Chris Lynn and Jacqueline McDowell in the 1980s, and recently sumptuously published as a well-researched and illustrated monograph5.