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Old Sarum project sees Neolithic huts built | |
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Three Neolithic-style huts have been built at Old Sarum to offer an insight into how Stonehenge's builders lived. | |
The huts, made of chalk and straw daub and wheat-thatched roofing, have been based on archaeological remains found at Durrington Walls, near Stonehenge. | The huts, made of chalk and straw daub and wheat-thatched roofing, have been based on archaeological remains found at Durrington Walls, near Stonehenge. |
Project leader Luke Winter said: "What we're trying to do is get a sense of what these buildings looked like above-ground." | Project leader Luke Winter said: "What we're trying to do is get a sense of what these buildings looked like above-ground." |
The hope is to re-build the huts at Stonehenge visitor centre next year. | The hope is to re-build the huts at Stonehenge visitor centre next year. |
"What makes the buildings interesting is that they were dated to about the same time as the large sarsen stones were being erected at Stonehenge," Mr Winter said. | |
"One of the theories is that these may have housed the people that were helping with construction of that monument." | "One of the theories is that these may have housed the people that were helping with construction of that monument." |
Inside, the project team has used a variety of different daubs, made of pig soil [dung] or chalk and straw and construction techniques that would have been used by Neolithic people. | |
"We've been trying a completely different way of thatching a roof. Nothing is tied onto the roof, as you would in a modern thatched building but the wheat straw that we've used is knotted and then tucked into a woven framework. | "We've been trying a completely different way of thatching a roof. Nothing is tied onto the roof, as you would in a modern thatched building but the wheat straw that we've used is knotted and then tucked into a woven framework. |
"Often people think 4,500 years ago is a long time ago, which of course to us as modern people it is, but it's well into beginnings of agriculture. | "Often people think 4,500 years ago is a long time ago, which of course to us as modern people it is, but it's well into beginnings of agriculture. |
"We're looking at people that were farming, keeping cows and domesticating cereal crops, and of course houses were an important thing." | "We're looking at people that were farming, keeping cows and domesticating cereal crops, and of course houses were an important thing." |
The Neolithic huts will be kept for another two months and will open to the public during the two May bank holidays. | The Neolithic huts will be kept for another two months and will open to the public during the two May bank holidays. |
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