So today i went back to the Iron Age.

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The Scottish Crannog Centre in Perthshire is an experimental archaeology site. The crannog that it is modelled on is the Oakbank Crannog round the point from the one made.


(Also an example of just how gorgeous Scotland is)

Inside the crannog was amazing, although it smelled really badly of damp wool and rotting vegetation from the bracken floor. The building took 3 years mainly due to the experimental nature of the site, finding the material and working out how it all went together. Also there is continuing repairs to the stucture as found on the main site.
Here are some of the Alder wood piles preserved by the peaty loch water of Loch Tay


Basically i've had a great day, watching reconstuctions of firemaking


Grain grinding


But i'll stop blinding you all with pictures, if anyone is interested there are more pictures http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ip%20Oct%2007/

Feel free to ask me things, can't promise to know the answer but i'll try.