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Building Homes

These pictures help you to see how the building materials in the CAT KIT were used.


Reconstruction of a Bronze Age house found at Holywell Coombe near Folkestone. The walls are made of timber and the roof is thatched. [LARGER IMAGE]	Canterbury in the Late Iron Age. Walls of houses were made with wattle and clay daub. The roofs were thatched. Courtesy of Canterbury Museums ©. [LARGER IMAGE]


This house is at Butser in Hampshire. It was built by experimental archaeologists in the 20th century, in a style used by people in the Iron Age. [LARGER IMAGE]	This is what archaeologists think Canterbury looked like in Roman times. Search this website for more information. [LARGER IMAGE]


Some houses in Roman Canterbury had floors decorated with mosaics. [LARGER IMAGE]	This Roman floor was found right outside Canterbury Cathedral! Can you see the mosaic? [LARGER IMAGE]	This floor belonged to a huge Roman house found at THE BIG DIG in Canterbury in 2002. [LARGER IMAGE]


This small oven was found in the huge Roman house at THE BIG DIG. [LARGER IMAGE]	At a Roman bath house you could swim, get clean and meet friends. Underfloor heating warmed the water in the baths. [LARGER IMAGE]	Roman underfloor heating system (hypocaust). [LARGER IMAGE]


Flue tile from a Roman heating system. [LARGER IMAGE]	Roman cats and dogs left their paw prints on these tiles! [LARGER IMAGE]


This is what archaeologists think Canterbury looked like in Anglo-Saxon times. Search this website for more information. [LARGER IMAGE]	The walls of Anglo-Saxon houses were made with wattle (woven branches) and daub (clay). [LARGER IMAGE]


All that we found of this Anglo-Saxon house were the holes where the upright posts had rotted away. [LARGER IMAGE]	This is how The Artichoke pub at Chartham looked in medieval times. The clay roof tiles were made in the Tyler Hill kilns near Canterbury. [LARGER IMAGE]


A medieval roof seen from the inside. Each clay tile was hung over the rafters by a wooden ‘peg’.	This Tudor wall painting was found in a house at St Dunstan’s, Canterbury. [LARGER IMAGE]


Model of a Roman dining room. [LARGER IMAGE]	Roman wall paintings at Pompei. [LARGER IMAGE]


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