Whithorn Iron Age roundhouse works in full swing
Whithorn Iron Age roundhouse works in full swing
By Willie Johnston
BBC Scotland
3 hours ago
Living history is about to take on a whole new meaning in Whithorn.
An Iron Age roundhouse is being built in the town to show how people lived in Galloway in the fifth century BC.
It is 13m in diameter, nine metres high and is made of various types of wood - all things that are known to be completely accurate thanks to an amazing archaeological find.
It is a modern interpretation of how a roundhouse would have looked - but one informed, very accurately, by a 2,500-year-old template.
Last year, in nearby woodland, archaeologists found an amazingly well-preserved roundhouse under the peat of a so-called loch village, the only one of its kind in Scotland, occupied by a native tribe around 500 BC.
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