Summary: Bronze Age Homes - Construction
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Construction techniques varied but the most common method was to place upright posts in the ground and to fit cross beams on top of them. Onto these, rafters of a low pitched roof were mounted.
The walls were probably made of interwoven branches, known as wattle. Roofing material would have been thatch. There is little evidence of internal furnishings but often there is the remains of a spit around a hearth.
Some other examples of smaller huts may not have been used for domestic dwellings. These were based on a shallow foundation trench and the huts were rather like an upturned basket. The internal floorspace could have been as little as 10 metres across. As this would have been very cramped, it may have been used for storage.
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