Worcestershire (Geographic Keyword)
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The booklet presents three types of houses of the Iron Age in Britain: The Canderton Round house, The Glastonburg Round House, and the Breiddin Round House. It demonstrates issues and advantages of the structures of the different houses. Beside houses, also ditches, palisades, and ramparts are discussed shortly. The experiments done in and around these houses included all domestic and agricultural tasks like weaving and sowing out crops.
The Conderton Construct (2005)
The opportunity to build a construct of a prehistoric house given to me by Nicholas Thomas in 1969 has proved to be one of the most significant moments in the development of this type of empiricism in archaeology (Reynolds 1999). Prior to this time, scaled down 'reconstructions' had been attempted, notably the building of the Little Woodbury house (Bersu 1940) and generalised 'reconstructions' of Iron Age huts (Reynolds 1965). The fundamental difference of this occasion was that the...
The Scientific Basis for the Reconstruction of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Houses (1987)
The purpose of this paper was to explore the scientific basis of building reconstruction of prehistoric and protohistoric houses. The critical issue was to address the problems of reconstruction in order to specify limits within which the reconstruction is of research/ educational value and to set standards which may act as guidelines. Case studies referenced include Maiden Castle House, the Balksbury House, the Conderton House, Stake Houses, the Pimperne House, Romano-British Grain driers,...