Professor Tom Moore

So most of those communities are pretty small.

They're the extended household rather than

There are very few sort of villages, if you like, large numbers of households together.

Certainly most of those would have been wattle and daub constructed.

Yes, there are a few where we have stone footings for roundhouses, particularly in sort of northern England, for instance, in Northumberland.

But yes, most of them are kind of timber built structures.

It's worth remembering, I mean, particularly if you've been to Butser, you can think of some, particularly actually the late Bronze Age or early Iron Age roundhouses.

These are pretty impressive structures, you know, big use of timber.

They're not, you know, the idea that these are kind of mud huts, as your kind of earlier reference was talking about.

These are complex structures, big structures.

And of course, when we're talking about brocks and big monumental structures in Scotland, these are incredibly complex.

highly architectural buildings.

Don't get me started on the Baroque, because that's another episode, isn't it?

Yeah, so you're weaving together and then covering it in clay.

It's clay, yeah.

And then you can paint it.

Sometimes with animal dung and stuff.

So again, hillforts is one of those terms we use all the time, but actually hillforts are very varied.

You know, we can think of really large hillforts, you know, people are

perhaps be aware of Maiden Castle down in Dorset, to quite small hill forts like those in Northumberland.