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The wisdom of 2,500 years, this is a Crannog
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This is the
Crannog Centre near Acharn, Scotland, an early Iron Age
reconstruction based on excavations of a 2,500 year old crannog. A
crannog is a platform built in water supporting a settlement. The
house was built on timbers that supported woven hazel walls and
the roof. This home had 40 elm and oak stumps making a walkway to
the shore.
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The earliest loch-dwelling in Scotland is some
5,000 years old but people built, modified, and re-used crannogs
in Scotland until the 17th century. Throughout their long history
crannogs served as farmers' homesteads, status symbols and refuges
in times of trouble. |
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