germanic and celtic houses

[Dux Corvanus]

The Celtic often dwelled in a protected village called castrum, which in its most modest configuration consisted in round houses made of wood and adobe -also stone- with a wooden and grass roof -that was not too durable and was changed every season- and some storing and common facilities, all rounded by a palisade. Of course, this is only the basic configuration: greater settlements and oppida -fortified positions- included more complex examples.

The Cantabrii -an Iberian northern tribe- actually built houses in the Celtic style. Last month, I had the chance to visit a reconstruction of one of those villages. It's the place you see in the pic. Don't get mistaken by their look, those huts are really comfortable. The top of the roof could be dismantled to change it for other new, or allow a bigger fire to be lit in the interior. There was an adobe bench all along the inner wall, as well as straw beds, storing pottery and straw boxes, and a central fireplace with cooking accesories and cauldrons suspended from hooks: