Medieval roundhouse build nears completion at UCD

The roundhouse, measuring some six metres in diameter, is built of hazel post and wattle and has been thatched in oaten straw.

"What we are trying to see is how would you build it, in terms of its architectural form. And then once you've built it, what would it be like to live in it, in terms of heat, smoke and light and so on.The interior of the roundhouse resembles a large, inverted domed basket."The excavations showed there was a lot of oats grown in the area at the time. So that's why we are using oaten straw," he said.

"In our experience, our students learn by doing, using all their senses," Professor O'Sullivan explained.

More images of the experimental reconstruction of an early medieval roundhouse at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture (CEAMC). For more, follow

theirishworld Can it be used as student housing? 😹😹😹

eleanormmannion some GerogeClooney energy off Jimmy Lenehan there all the same.

We'll all be living in medieval conditions shortly with meehole and leaky in charge 😪

😂, I guess the 'Russian missile strike' on Poland didn't start WW3, after all, eh? A straw house in Yah.C.D. exited that story, stage death, pretty darn fast, tellin' yehhzz. Surprise Surprise, Cilla.

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