The Iron Age Round-house: Later Prehistoric Building in Britain and Beyond (Hardback)
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Short Description for The Iron Age Round-house A fully illustrated study of Iron Age round-houses, which explores not just their architectural aspects but more importantly their role in the social, economic and ritual structure of their communities, and their significance as symbols of Iron Age society in the face of Romanization.
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Published: 20 December 2009
- Format: Hardback 374 pages
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- Categories: British & Irish History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Archaeology | Prehistoric Archaeology
- ISBN 13: 9780199558575 ISBN 10: 0199558574
- Sales rank: 1,255,576
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Full description for The Iron Age Round-house
In contrast to Continental Europe, where the Iron Age is abundantly represented by funerary remains as well as by hill-forts and major centres, the British Iron Age is mainly represented by its settlement sites, and especially by houses of circular ground-plan, apparently in marked contrast to the Central and Northern European tradition of rectangular houses. In lowland Britain the evidence for timber round-houses comprises the footprint of post-holes or foundation trenches; in the Atlantic north and west, the remains of monumental stone-built houses survive as upstanding ruins, testimony to the building skills of Iron Age engineers and masons. D. W. Harding's fully illustrated study explores not just the architectural aspects of round-houses, but more importantly their role in the social, economic and ritual structure of their communities, and their significance as symbols of Iron Age society in the face of Romanization.
