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Re: Beeston Castle - STREET VIEW of gatehouse by Sunny100 on Monday, 27 May 2019

A Bronze Age round-house is currently under construction here at Beeston Castle, Cheshire. It should be completed by October.

The volunteers are using authentic tools and archaeological evidence to recreate the house and based the reconstruction on recent discoveries at the Bronze Age settlement at Must Farm in Cambridgeshire. They've also drawn on earlier evidence found at Beeston Castle itself.

People lived on the rocky Cheshire crag long before the existing medieval castle was built, and in the late Bronze Age it was an important defended settlement and metalworking centre.

Although little visible evidence remains of this early activity, in the 1970s and 80s archaeologists discovered traces of post-holes for what was called House Six. This was a thatched Bronze Age roundhouse with walls of wattle-and-daub – a mixture of twigs, earth and clay. Bronze Age objects such as axes and knives were also uncovered during this time.

Here's the EH Link: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about-us/search-news/beeston-bronze-age-house-recreated/

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