Wow, what's that? A roundhouse I think. I wonder who lived here?
I don’t know, maybe we should go take a look inside?
Can I help? Are you lost?
We were just looking around and we thought we'd take a look inside?
Come and sit down and warm yourself by my fire.
Why have our clothes have changed to these dresses?
They aren’t dresses, child, they’re tunics. We make all our clothes you know,
out of wool and leather, and some animal skins.
Why is it so smoky in here?
Well, because we keep our fire burning all the time.
It keeps us warm and it stops the roof from getting too damp. We can cook on it and
we can put a pot over it, and that helps to keep our food warm all day.
Isn't it dangerous to have a fire in a house made of wood?
No because this roof allows enough air to keep the fire going but not get out of control.
We do have to keep a watch on it though and that's the responsibility of all the family.
Where are the rooms?
We don't have rooms in here, it's plenty warm enough. We don't have servants and
we don't have animals in here either. We all live together as a family.
Where do you, you know, go to the toilet?
In a pot of course! And we empty it in a ditch a fair way from our home, because it
can get a bit smelly.
How many of you live here? My husband and my sons live here with me.
All of us built this house.
So you built this whole house by yourselves?
The whole community helped to build this house, and all of the other houses.
How did you build so many houses? Did you just use your hands?
Of course not. We have tools we can use. We've got metal tools made of bronze.
Bronze is made of tin and copper. We get that from mines in nearby Wales and from Cornwall.
So what's this house made of then?
A mixture of things. Our roof is thatched which means it's made from reeds that we get from
the nearby river. We grow ash trees that form the poles that support the thatch.
We use hazel trees to build the walls.
I like your necklace, what's it made of?
Polished stones and precious things that we find. Would you like me to show you how to make one?
Yeah! Come on.
I'm going to teach you how to make a bow drill. You need to find a
really good stout branch. There's a hole through in that end and a hole through
in that end. You need to put a piece of leather thong through those holes and
You make a nice knot. This is what we use to wedge the stone into while we're
drilling. Put your drill bit in the middle of the stone. Wrap the bow drill
around the drill bit like that. You turn the drill bit using the bow drill and
you'll find that you quite quickly get a hole. It's not hard work at all.
Yep, you're getting it. You're getting there. Not quite through. Yeah, that's it.
Let's have a look.
Put the stone on to the leather thong, and there you have your necklace.
That looks beautiful, but I think it's time for you to go home now, don't you?
Thanks for showing us around your house. Thanks for the necklace.