Building Celtic roundhouses
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- How the Prehistoric Roundhouses at Llynnon Mill on Anglesey were built. For more information on our work please visit: www.ancient-arts.org and for details about visiting the site go to: www.visitangles...
This...is ...awesome! I love this long forgotten way of building and living, the celts and other ancient people were tough and innovative. Thx for this post, glad you are keeping the spirit of the past alive!
Many thanks, so glad you enjoyed it!
This is a very good video! Informative and without that awful, jarring music that some folks add into their videos, this was a pleasure to watch!
4.10 was so good to see! I've not previously seen that kind of drill before. :)
Excellent presentation! I have been to Wales and saw the round house bases at Holy Head Mountain. They are an amazing building technique with many benefits over square houses!
Really beautiful house 🏡. I honestly would like to live in it.
WHATTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seeing the construction of this makes me wonder if Stonehenge is just the remaining foundations of what was a giant communal roundhouse building...
amazing, would love to build one of these someday and know how to build more
Nice work! The Celts also built multi story buildings.
Regarding the cob walls, there was a house built with cob walls on Grand Designs a few years back.
Proft would like to know more about the story bulidings could you please elaborate
This is the first video on ancient building techniques that mentions security devices. I believe some people nowadays are in error when they build without enough concern for security. To build a cabin in a remote place and live in it with nobody around is asking for trouble. Troubled times are upon us and we need to group together for protection. If society breaks down there will be gangs of hungry people roaming the countryside in search of food.
I was thinking of a circular, ring shaped building that could house several families, built on the concept of a fortress with a single entrance, and searched to see if similar concept existed, and it does! The Hakka people of China have built such housing complexes named Tulo which are excellent and beautiful! Just search in Images, you won't be disappointed.
+Khamomil Security at this time would have been vitally important. The Iron Age was a time of swords, sheilds, hillforts, severed head trophies and inter tribal slavery; it wasn't a time of 1960's hippy communes!
good video, plenty of informations. Tks.
Would love such a house ;)
+Dakini Dream Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it :)
Very informative. Thank you for posting.
Thanks for sharing guys. We don't see enough information on how the Celts lived, at least in the media sense.
Love it
How does it fair in the winter, also how cold do your winters get.
P.S.
In Africa WATTLE and DOB construction consists of uprights and woven lateral peace's as you have shown but the DOB consists of stray, clay, sand, and animal dung from any herbivore but most commonly from cattle. The dung prevents the walls from extensive cracking from the hot summers and ads as a water repellent during the Rainey season.
Hi, We don't have extreme weather conditions at this location, it only snows for a couple of days in the Winter if at all. Wind was the main issue here with damage to the thatch a potential problem. Prehistoric houses were well located to minimise wind damage. A conical roof like this is also a good design for windy conditions. Note how the roof comes down nearly to the ground to protect the daub walls from rain. We used a very similar daub mix as you describe, its great stuff! Thanks for your comment :)
These buildings remind me of the Kivas of the Hopi and the round houses of the Mandan along the Missouri
The Mandan may hsve had contact with the British through Madoc
They remind me of the indigenous Cuban huts.
Round Houses of various style are global of every culture, post n beam and or mud brick.
Ah it looks beautiful
Thank you!
We the Mandan Dakota had round houses before the coming of the wasicu's in North Dakota USA.
This Skeletor structure of your roundhouse very much looks like the equivalent made stone - Stonehenge!
Awsume Vid!
Cheers!
So proud to be Welsh
I would like to know if there are any classes of roundhouse building that you can go to from abroad?
The circle is the most powerful symbol in the occult incorporating Alchemy.
I just want to know how you make that tension wheel at the top of the roof
love your video I'm interested in building a celtic roundhouse here in the us (eastern kentucky )I was wondering if you have any plans on the construction I have the general idea but I'm afraid when I get started I will come on problems and I was needing a round idea of each step.if there is anyway you could help I would be greatful
You have to have running water, water heater, flush toilets and a lot of other crap in the US. Stupid regulations all around.
excellent thank you.
Okay can you get to the foundation and wood frame please
That's what Stonehenge was. Instead of wood they used stones. It was a palace.
Stonehenge is pre-Celtic.
@@luked6385 So what!
Exactly my thought
is this still open to visit ? Hoping to call in on a cycle trip to the Boyne Valley and then up to the Western Isles and Orkney.
very nice! perhaps can be visited?
Yes you can visit the site :) Here's a link: www.angleseyheritage.com/key-places/llynnon/
I want one, how much?
I would love to build a structure like this to serve as a workshop, someday, though I'd like to utilize modern methods to make the process easier. However, I do feel the need to dispute the idea that animal remains found on archaeological sites might represent the result of ritual sacrifice. Any modern pagan will tell you that when one sacrifices something to the gods, it has to be something that god or goddess would actually want, and animal sacrifices were significantly less common for the celts than a lot of archaeologists seem to think, as offerings of coin, craft, and individual parts such as blood or specific bones of an animal representing harvest, craft, etc. It's far more likely that animal remains, even whole animal remains found onsite, especially in areas just outside of the walls of a settlement, would be the end result of feasting.
+GreatSmithanon Hi, thanks for commenting. Archaeologist often use the word 'ritual' when they don't know what is going on! Animal bones are probably food remains, but its harder to explain fully articulated remains as food/feasting debris; why throw away an untoutched/unbutchered carcas? At this time wealth would have been judged by the number of animals you owned, why do think they would be seen as low value offerings? Out of interest why do you think that modern pagans and prehistoric beliefs have anything in common? There is no evidence of any continuity of belief apart from some heavy diluted folk traditions. Thanks again for commenting always intersting to have interesting feedback.
Well, technically speaking, hat makes a sacrifice important is that it has to be something that is both precious to the person sacrificing, and something that is connected to that deity. As far as methodology, for the celts it was typical to bring a sacrifice to high up places, such as mountains. If unable to get a sacrifice to a mountain, The alternative ould be to burn it. Doing so in a central and public place as incredibly important to the ancient celts. Remember that the most horrible punishment doled out and the ancient justice system used by the celts was to be barred from public sacrifice. Thus, dumping sacrificial remains in a pit or over the wall seems.... completely antithetical to the way the celts viewed the practice of sacrifice. Granted, there are some precedents of odd sacrificial behavior after a certain fashion, such as the practice of taking the head of a respected enemy and preserving it in a jar, or taking a fallen opponent's best weapons and throwing them into the nearest body of water, but this seems much more a mark of respect than simply tossing remains.
How old is this place
Y Profiad Celtaidd!
fi wastad wedi fod yn hoffi iawn o ein hanes cetlaidd ni ac ein chwedlau
Interesting village, but that modern fein gravel looks out of place.
+Tiberiotertio Modern Health and Safety I'm afraid. Modern people aren't thought to be capable of walking on bare earth!
ancient1580
Hmm o.k. must be then something specific from local authorities as thinking of open air museums in France, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden they manage with out that gravel although the few that do have that gravel are groaning as it is being carried into the reconstructions and visitor centers, ruining all wooded floors.
+Tiberiotertio British authorities tend to be very timid about such things (lots of lawyers advertising on TV about compensation claims). It also reduces maintenance costs; these projects get grants to be built but little money to maintain them sadly; which is why most close within ten years.
ancient1580
Yes you are right on that, that is a problem in all of Europe, unless a open air museum is backed by big sponsors, ideally the EU many run into financal problems or dirft off into a histotainment Disneyland kind of thing. With the gravel I was thinking of the open air museum in Aalen Germany (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limesmuseum_Aalen) where a reconstruction of a Roman baracks the wooden floor was ruined in one event.
+Tiberiotertio That's such a shame. It's always a hard balance to get between realism and practicality when reconstructing objects/buildings from the past. We make flint knives for teaching collections, but we have to blunt them (a nonsensical thing to do really!) because the first thing many people do when holding a flint knife is to see how sharp it is by running the blade against their skin, even if we've already warned them they are very sharp! The roundhouses in this film had to pass modern building regulations before they could be opened to the public which meant adding unnecessary steel bolts to the timber joints which then had to be hidden by traditional bindings.
This is all cool and all but it's all supposition. The only thing they have archaeologically are the post holes and sometimes a bit of a post to tell them what wood was used. There are no surviving Celtic round houses. No pictures of ancient Celtic homes taken by time travelers. It's all guess work once the post rises above ground level. because we do something one way now doesn't mean that was the way it was done back then.
I'm sure that the ancestors didn't just start building the houses in the completed form but used trial, error and common sense to solve the problems that they faced. You have to consider too the materials that were available to them and the fact that some of these techniques were still being used upto recently.
Hi, my name is Cleo Lawrence and I'm working on a documentary for Discovery Channel on Seahenge - we would be very interested in licensing this footage to use in the documentary so if you are at all interested please email me at Cleopatra.lawrence@windfallfilms.com
Thanks,
C
Come on bro I didn't mean the prehistoric round house
The audio of this video is TERRIBLE!
Rather boring. It can all be said in a way that doesn't sound like it's tryna' bore us to death. :-/
"We made a bunch of shit up, and used your taxes for it! Best part is it's not even science, it's 'art', suck it tax payers!"