How Did Iron Age People Live Bbc Bitesize 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. these ranged in size from less than 5m. Here are six incredible bushcraft shelters from the iron age of britain. the largest is 50ft and is made with a timber frame of oak, and rafters of alder. th.
Iron Age Britain The Roundhouse Youtube Castell henllys is the only iron age fort in britain to have been (partially) reconstructed. the roof covering was thatch of some sort. to thatch a roundhouse roof with wheat straw or, more. 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. Clay walled structures are a feature of river valley landscapes in the later iron age, especially in eastern england, whilst in atlantic scotland, on the other hand, people well used to working with stone built monumentally, creating the brochs. the first timber roundhouse was identified by thomas wake in his 1936 excavations at witchy neuk. Reconstructing an iron age roundhouse. most iron age archaeological sites only reveal a small part of what was there originally because organic material such as wood, leather, rope and thatching.
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