Tristan Hughes

I know it's a huge period, it's several centuries, but there is one type of settlement that you tend to associate with an Iron Age farmer.

So that's interesting.

I would have actually thought straight away, get to the hill forts in a bit, but the roundhouse, like surely the small farming settlement and the roundhouse.

I mean, you mentioned brocks and all these things.

I mean, they're always round.

So what do we know about the function of round houses, almost like the house of an everyday person in the Iron Age?

And can we imagine these smaller settlements?

I've been to Butser Ancient Farm before, I always think of that.

But we'll get to the hill forts and the larger settlements in a bit.

But with these kind of farmsteads, these roundhouses, generally speaking, do we think from archaeology that you would probably see maybe like three, four or five roundhouses in one of these settlements in a very small, tight-knit community?

And livestock, crops, and the building of the roundhouse itself.

Is this where we get the word wattle and daub quite a lot?

Well, exactly.

We're kind of already displacing that.

But hopefully we'll have some pictures, some shots of Butser Ancient Farm.

We filmed there in the past.

And with wassail and daub, it's kind of the binding together of lots of sticks and then the painting over with the kind of clay.

Yes, I mean, we had insulation.

Yes, yeah.

Okay, so that's kind of the everyday farming assessment of the Iron Age that we think of.