Stonehenge: The Story of a Sacred Landcape by Francis Pryor

Author:Francis Pryor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2017-04-08T04:00:00+00:00

The Riverside Project’s excavations showed that the houses built for (and by?) the Stonehenge Stage 2 workforce, or workforces, were not the often ramshackle, sometimes ex-army sheds used by the railway navvies of Victorian times. Instead, they lived in proper houses whose design can be closely paralleled across the British Isles.94 The excavations of 2004–7 revealed nine square houses measuring about 5.3 metres (17 ft) across. The walls were made from posts set about 30 cm (or a foot) apart and interwoven with wattlework, which was then coated with a plaster-like daub, made from pounded chalk, soil and animal dung. Wide eaves would have been essential to keep this material dry. There were wooden box-beds around the walls. At the centre of each house was a rectangular hearth and, in at least one case, two depressions could be detected where people knelt while tending to a fire. The houses were not standardized nor uniform, and some were clearly of higher status than others. Excellent reconstructions have been built outside the new Stonehenge Visitor Centre.

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