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Rethinking Roundhouses - Later Prehistoric Settlement in Britain and Beyond (Hardcover)
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Rethinking Roundhouses - Later Prehistoric Settlement in Britain and Beyond (Hardcover)
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Excavated plans of roundhouses may compound multiple episodes of
activity, design, construction, occupation, repair, and closure,
reflecting successive stages of a building's biography. What does
not survive archaeologically, through use of materials or methods
that leave no tangible trace, may be as important for
reconstruction as what does survive, and can only be inferred from
context or comparative evidence. The great diversity in structural
components suggests a greater diversity of superstructure than was
implied by the classic Wessex roundhouses, including split-level
roofs and penannular ridge roofs. Among the stone-built houses of
the Atlantic north and west there likewise appears to have been a
range of regional and chronological variants in the radial
roundhouse series, and probably within the monumental Atlantic
roundhouses too. Important though recognition of structural
variants may be, morphological classification should not be allowed
to override the social use of space for which the buildings were
designed, whether their structural footprint was round or
rectangular. Atlantic roundhouses reveal an important division
between central space and peripheral space, and a similar division
may be inferred for lowland timber roundhouses, where the surviving
evidence is more ephemeral. Some larger houses were evidently
byre-houses or barn houses, some with upper or mezzanine floor
levels, in which livestock might be brought in or agricultural
produce stored. Such 'great houses' doubtless served community
needs beyond those of the resident extended family. The
massively-increased scale of development-led excavations of recent
years has resulted in an increased database that enables evaluation
of individual sites in a wider landscape environment than was
previously possible. Circumstances of recovery and recording in
commercially-driven excavations, however, are not always compatible
with research objectives, and the undoubted improvements in
standards of environmental investigation are sometimes offset by
shortcomings in the publication of basic structural or
stratigraphic detail.
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