Definition & Betydelse | Engelska ordet ROUNDHOUSES

Definition av ROUNDHOUSES

1. böjningsform av roundhouse

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• An early Bronze Age site was excavated in the Meadowlands area of Downpatrick, revealing two roundhouses, one was four metres across and the other was over seven metres across.
• The archaeologists discovered the remains of timber roundhouses, a circular ditch-defined enclosure, miniature souterrains, probable standing stone sockets and an assortment of pits.
• In Suffolk, millwrights would build post mills mounted on tall, two or three storey roundhouses, as at Saxtead Green.
• It is characterised by the incorrectly-named Celtic fields, palisaded cattle enclosures, small roundhouses and cremation burials either in urnfield cemeteries or under low, round barrows.
• Larger roundhouses were adequately staffed with boilermakers, blacksmiths, and pipefitters so that this work could be accomplished on-site; only the most extensive work, such as major unexpected repairs or scheduled major maintenance, required the transport of locomotives to specialized backshops.
• The site consists of a group of ruinous drystone roundhouses and enclosures, thought to have been a sheep-farming community.
• The PTC also wanted to demolish the Enfield roundhouses to make way for a container terminal and offered the museum a site at Thirlmere on the then lightly used Picton – Mittagong loop line.
• Romano-British artefacts have also been found in relation to these roundhouses, including two late Roman minimi and several shards of Samian ware.
• Among the remains found were Bronze Age cist burials and plough-marks, and a hamlet of Iron Age roundhouses and a wheelhouse on a par with those at Skara Brae on the Orkney Isles.
• Although constructed in earlier times, brochs, roundhouses and crannogs remained in use into and beyond the Pictish period.
• Traces of Roman villas have been discovered at Blackmoor, Kingsley and Liss, though ordinary people continued to live in roundhouses.
• Within the enclosure there is evidence of a significant settlement and industry, including a smithing hearth and evidence of ironworking, and the postholes of large wooden roundhouses.
• From the Bronze Age there are fewer new buildings, but there is evidence of crannogs, roundhouses built on artificial islands and of Clava cairns and the first hillforts.
• Although constructed in earlier times, brochs, roundhouses and crannogs remained in use into and beyond the Pictish period.

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