Roundhouse remodelled
After the Christmas break some changes were made to the roundhouse design, including a new doorway structure. The previous wattling was whipped off and a new version erected. We are […]
Category Archives: Prehistory
Roundhouse begins – day 1
A week earlier than planned, work has begun on the replica of roundhouse 74 from Glastonbury Lake Village. The recent excavations showed that the wall posts only averaged 38mm in […]
Carnyx calls
Round the back of an industrial estate, the unlikely strains of an Iron Age carnyx (based on the 1816 finds from Deskford in Scotland) could be heard entertaining passing high […]
World’s smallest cinema
The World’s smallest cinema will open to the public for one day only on the 21st of July during the Viking day. The Bulleid and Gray cinema will show a […]
Mysteries of the Iron Age dead revealed
A new study of 130 Iron Age bodies from 5 sites in Somerset has been undertaken by Cardiff University, revealing the mysterious ways in which human remains were treated. It […]
Iron Age woman from the Sowy River
A local dog walker found a human skull in the Sowy River in 2017 and the Police dated the remains to the middle Iron Age. Further work by SWHT has […]
Is Glastonbury Lake Village being destroyed by climate change?
Water table monitoring has been going on for the last 3 years at the Iron Age Lake Village site, as part of a project helping to increase our knowledge of […]
Roundhouse disintegration
The gradual death of the last Glastonbury lake village roundhouse continues, but soon the thatch will be salvaged for the next roundhouse. Should be good for another decade or so […]
Tree felling record
Last weekend a group of people led by Marc Cox felled a large oak tree with replica copper and bronze axes. This is thought to be the first time that […]
Death of a roundhouse
The third replica Iron Age roundhouse at the Avalon Marshes Centre quietly passed away at the weekend. It had been in poor health for some time and its demise had […]
