A new build - based on a thousand-year-old design - is nearing completion in Dublin. The replica roundhouse at UCD will be used by staff and students to research early medieval living conditions. Read more:
The roundhouse, measuring some six metres in diameter, is built of hazel post and wattle and has been thatched in oaten straw.
"What we are trying to see is how would you build it, in terms of its architectural form. And then once you've built it, what would it be like to live in it, in terms of heat, smoke and light and so on.The interior of the roundhouse resembles a large, inverted domed basket."The excavations showed there was a lot of oats grown in the area at the time. So that's why we are using oaten straw," he said.
"In our experience, our students learn by doing, using all their senses," Professor O'Sullivan explained.
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