Moel y Gerddi House
Butser Ancient Farm, nr Petersfield

This building is based on the layout of a round house from the Moel y Gerddi site in Wales. It is being constructed at Butser Ancient farm, an archaeological experimental site in Hampshire, England.
The farm staff, along with the Friends of the Farm, undertook the main building work. The interior, under the guidance of David Freeman, will be furnished and decorated to a high standard, circa forth/third century BC (middle iron-age).

These pages will be updated as the building progresses.
All photographs © Gallica 2001/2004

The main aim was to have the thatching complete by Easter 2002, when Phil Harding of 'Time Team' fame, officiated at the topping out ceremony.
The house will be occupied 'iron-age style', for the public to experience what life was like in pre-roman Britain.

Moel y Gerddi
Moel y Gerddi lies in the parish of Llanfair at SH61663170
It is positioned on the flat top of a low ridge skirting the western flanks of Moel y Gerddi hill.
The house is in the centre of a circular enclosure approximately 30 meters across. The house is 10 meters in diameter, with two doorways, facing east and west. There is an inner ring of 12 post holes approximately 1.5 meters in from the wall. In the centre of the house is a fireplace of flat stone slabs, in a shallow depression, covering an area of about 1 sq. meter.

The phase shown is dated middle Iron-Age.

Information taken from the excavation report of the Prehistoric Society