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Iron age roundhouse rises from the ashes on shores of Scottish loch


Volunteers are helping to build a replica crannog on Loch Tay after an earlier model burned down two years ago.

More info : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/18/iron-age-roundhouse-rises-from-the-ashes-on-shores-of-scottish-lake
drewbhoy Posted by drewbhoy
19th May 2023ce

Comments (7)

Those people must've been hardy souls... just IMAGINE the midges... GLADMAN Posted by GLADMAN
21st May 2023ce
I've wondered before if crannogs were to get away from midges etc? Less of them over water and more likely a breeze which they don't like? thelonious Posted by thelonious
21st May 2023ce
And plenty wind in Loch Tay................ drewbhoy Posted by drewbhoy
21st May 2023ce
Better a hillfort, then? I've literally been forced off the campsite at Loch Brittle for the midges... unbearable beside water. To be fair, Skye is probably the worst that I recall. GLADMAN Posted by GLADMAN
21st May 2023ce
Hillforts got to be good, never thought about that. Beside water is bad for midges. Just wondering if 10 metres out into the loch the midges are much less?

Here's hoping it's not a bad year for them. It seems to get worse each year, even in the east now.
thelonious Posted by thelonious
22nd May 2023ce
Perhaps there were fewer midges back then. thesweetcheat Posted by thesweetcheat
22nd May 2023ce
haha yeah - don't leave home without the headnet! Even having to use it in Wales now in summer. Never used to... bought a bit of net curtain so I can have the car window open GLADMAN Posted by GLADMAN
22nd May 2023ce
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