Houses for the dead​…what about the living?

StoneGloves S
StoneGloves Sep 6, 2010 13:00:23
Replying to wideford

MPP conducted excavations of roundhouses (somewhere in Scotland) and reported that there was a buried corpse beneath the doorway, in one of them. That's about as close as it gets.

It's quite easy to envisage a long barrow's appearance as a woolly thatched longhouse. And very literal too.

T tiompan
tiompan Sep 6, 2010 13:12:39
Replying to StoneGloves

StoneGloves wrote:
MPP conducted excavations of roundhouses (somewhere in Scotland) and reported that there was a buried corpse beneath the doorway, in one of them. That's about as close as it gets.
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/6447/cladh_hallan_round_houses.html
Burials within the settlement area and under houses is the norm for the period 7000-6500 BC in the SE Europe .

S Sanctuary
Sanctuary Sep 6, 2010 13:43:55
Replying to StoneGloves

StoneGloves wrote:
It's quite easy to envisage a long barrow's appearance as a woolly thatched longhouse. And very literal too.
I was thinking along the lines of the possibility of a roofed long barrow being the original home of a leader/chieftain and his family and as they died off were laid to rest in the side chambers then when 'full' the whole thing becoming just a stone capped chambered tomb as we know it today.

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