Neolithic (New Stone Age) Houses, Stonehenge, Wiltshire
These two huts are reconstructions of Neolithic houses. Their shape is based on excavations of Neolithic houses at Durrington Walls.(opens in a new window) They are made from thin hazel rods woven around upright posts (like a hazel hurdle fence). The woven structure is then covered, inside and out, with a mixture of crushed chalk, chopped straw and water. This is called chalk daub. Their roofs have been thatched with straw (from wheat). There are 5 houses in total, outside the Visitor Centre at Stonehenge. Each house has been thatched in a different way, as although archaeology tells us about the walls, there is no surviving evidence to prove exactly how the roofs would have looked.
Location
Wiltshire StonehengePeriod
Prehistoric (to AD42)Themes
