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28. Feb. 2011 · Discover what life was like in an Iron Age Village. How close were Iron Age people to the men and women of today.
- Ancient History in depth: Reconstructing Iron Age Buildings - BBC
Archaeologists think that Iron Age people, and earlier...
- Ancient History in depth: Reconstructing Iron Age Buildings - BBC
Among the best-preserved ancient villages in South West England, Carn Euny was occupied from the Iron Age until late Roman times. It includes the foundations of stone houses from the 2nd to 4th centuries AD, with walls up to a metre high in places. At the heart of the village is its most intriguing feature – a stone-walled underground passage ...
The village was inhabited from the Iron Age until about the end of the Roman occupation of Britain (about 400 BC – AD 400) and has an excellent example of an underground stone-walled passage, known as a ‘fogou’, a type of monument only found in the far west of Cornwall.
- Introduction
- Lessons from The Celtic Village: Water Run-Off and Ventilation
- Lessons from The Celtic Village: Disabled Access and Light Levels
- Lessons from The Celtic Village: Coping with Success
- Beyond The Celtic Village
- Beyond The Celtic Village: Location
- Beyond The Celtic Village: The Basis of The Reconstruction
- Beyond The Celtic Village: Accessibility and Light Levels
- Beyond The Celtic Village: Experiment Or Experience?
- Beyond The Celtic Village: Thatching The Roofs
In February 2013 St Fagans National History Museum closed its Celtic Village after over twenty years of continual use as a popular visitor attraction. This pioneering development was built for the museum by Peter Reynolds of Butser fame and consisted of three Iron Age roundhouses set within a palisaded enclosure. From the outset its remit was prima...
One of the dominant themes that runs through the maintenance records for the Celtic Village is the consequence of its build location, set as it was at towards the base of a hill, surrounded by tall trees. This meant that the site was plagued by water run-off from the hill, and also failed to benefit from drying breezes, resulting in very damp condi...
The location of the Celtic Village brought another set of difficulties, this time for our visitors rather than for the buildings themselves. Access to the site was along a steep and uneven path which was an obstacle to wheelchair users. Furthermore, the entrance to the Moel y Gerddi house involved stepping over a low-wooden sill - even though there...
Perhaps the greatest single factor affecting the visitor experience in the Celtic Village was simply the sheer success of the structures. Visitor numbers have already been quoted and on a peak summer day it was possible for 6-7,000 people to visit the Village as part of their trip to St Fagans. This placed great demands on the individual buildings....
The closure of the Celtic Village provided an important opportunity to reflect on these varied issues. Fortunately, concurrent with the decision to close, came the decision to build a new Iron Age experience at St Fagans, thereby providing an opportunity to turn reflection into an improved visitor experience. Site location, water management, visito...
In developing our plans for the new buildings the first issue we addressed was their location taking the opportunity to build on a new site at the top of a hill where the woodland is thinner and the available clearing larger. This position will, we hope, be less affected by water run-off and will benefit more from a drying wind. The chosen location...
The second issue we faced was what we should build. In 1992, Iron Age roundhouse reconstructions were relatively rare. Today there are over 126 roundhouses in Britain and Ireland (British Roundhouses 2015). The majority of these are based, to a greater or lesser extent, on the work of Peter Reynolds who provided an architectural template for wattle...
Fire safety makes it necessary to include more than one exit from large buildings, regardless of their presence in the original structure. In the case of our new roundhouses, it was decided not to alter the external appearance of the houses, but to include a doorway linking the two buildings which would run beneath the joining roof ridge, thereby m...
So far, this article has focused on the practical issues affecting the development of the Iron Age farmstead, not least because this is an area that is little explored in most articles which deal with roundhouse reconstructions. Indeed, the practicalities involved in catering for visitors are sometimes presented as a negative, leading as they do to...
The materials and methods used to thatch roundhouses in the Iron Age is a subject which has not received a great deal of attention when compared to the literature available on the nature of walls and roof timbers. This is perhaps not surprising given that, in many cases, the form of roundhouse walls can be extrapolated from archaeological evidence,...
Castle and Mill History. Gerald De Windsor and Princess Nest; Sir Rhys ap Thomas; Sir John Perrot; Ghosts of Carew Castle; School Visits to Carew Castle; Shop and eat; Castell Henllys Iron Age Village. Castell Henllys and Beyond; School Visits to Castell Henllys; About Castell Henllys. Café and Shop; Living Sustainably; Meet the Tribe ...
Your Ancient Adventure Awaits! Come and enjoy a prehistoric day out at Castell Henllys and immerse yourself in the Iron Age. Where: Crymych. Type: Historic Site. Attraction information. Get in touch. Meline, Crymych, Pembrokeshire, SA41 3UR. 01239 891319. enquiries@castellhenllys.com. https://www.pembrokeshirecoast.wales/castell-henllys/ Social.
