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Reconstructed crannog on Loch Tay, Scotland. A roundhouse is a type of house with a circular plan, usually with a conical roof. In the later part of the 20th century, modern designs of roundhouse eco-buildings were constructed with materials such as cob, cordwood or straw bale walls and reciprocal frame green roofs.
Broch of Mousa. In archaeology, a broch / b r ɒ x / is an Iron Age drystone hollow-walled structure found in Scotland.Brochs belong to the classification "complex Atlantic roundhouse" devised by Scottish archaeologists in the 1980s.
Dunvegan Community Trust plan to re-create an Iron Age roundhouse structure at Orbost on Skye with the help of National Lottery funding. [3]The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland undertook a project to reexamine the Atlantic roundhouses of the Tarbat Peninsula, Easter Ross by taking kite photographs of the sites, surveys, and excavation led by archaeologists.
The Antonine Wall is the largest Roman construction inside Scotland. It is a sward-covered wall made of ... a round house with a characteristic outer wall within ...
Roundhouse (dwelling), a house with circular walls Atlantic roundhouse , a type of Iron Age stone building in Scotland Roundhouse (windmill) , the substructure of a windmill
The standard layout of a house throughout Scotland before agricultural improvement was a byre-dwelling or longhouse or blackhouse with humans and livestock sharing a common roof, often separated by only a partition wall, leading to the byre (barn) [32] Contemporaries noted that cottages in the Highlands and Islands tended to be cruder, with ...
In archaeology, a wheelhouse is a prehistoric structure from the Iron Age found in Scotland. The term was first coined after the discovery of a ruined mound in 1855. [ 1 ] The distinctive architectural form related to the complex roundhouses constitute the main settlement type in the Western Isles in the closing centuries BC. [ 2 ]
A hut circle in Torr Righ, Arran, Scotland. In archaeology, a hut circle is a circular or oval depression in the ground which may or may not have a low stone wall around it that used to be the foundation of a round house. The superstructure of such a house would have been made of timber and thatch.