Actually, folks in britain couldn't build houses with corners until the Angles came.

@pricklypear7516

9 ай бұрын

I guess they couldn't stitch their thatched roofs in place until the Jutes arrived.

@b_ks

8 ай бұрын

This is waaay underrated. 😁

@jamesdixon5714

8 ай бұрын

ty! sometimes the sleepy gremlin that controls my brain comes up with funny words

@mikethompson5549

3 ай бұрын

Great joke😂😂😂

@YeshuaKingMessiah

2 күн бұрын

🤪🤣

The circle has the lowest perimeter/area ratio of all geometrical shapes. In other words if you build round houses you can make bigger houses (more floor area) with the same lenght of walls. If you were to build a house and only had enought stone to build 40m of walls you would get almost 25% more floor area by building a round house as opposed to a square house, the ratio goes down from 0.4 to 0.31

@MariusRomanum

Жыл бұрын

Insane maths bro

Roundhouses are underrated.

@just1rite

2 жыл бұрын

The Africans figured this out long before you came out the cave tombs. The round house represents heaven of a Black woman's womb. Lol the pranks... Roundhouses originated where civilization began, thanks

My whole life I adored round houses and said if I had my way I'd live in one. I was thrilled when I discovered my ancestors lived in round houses.

Charcoal is good for absorbing poisons...so maybe it was used as a preventative measure ?

@richern2717

4 жыл бұрын

@Mike Hagarty Mike I think you will poison yourself when you eat Coal because Coal after all is almost the same as Oil you use in a car engine....

@brodiegrantt

3 жыл бұрын

Ric Hern he’s talking about charcoal. It’s different

@richern2717

3 жыл бұрын

@@brodiegrantt Read all the above comments. It will throw light on the conversation...

Show some respect for this guy for playing Skyrim music in the background ! :D

@kianukasceltictales3403

3 жыл бұрын

Just noticed that 😂 it fits perfectly

@huntclanhunt9697

2 жыл бұрын

Forget that. My man has screenshots from Mystery of the druids.

Yes, we have plenty of those here in Portugal from the iron and bronze age. They were called castros by romans. There are two wonderful Castro fortified cities near by my city

at the 2:40 mark you show the interior of a round house. This is very similar to the Japanese Jomon period round houses from 10,000 BC! I think it is amazing that harsh climates encourage similar answers in the design of the buildings.

@johndowe7003

4 жыл бұрын

Same as a Mongolian yurt

Round house, Max space with smallest amount of materials.

I always wondered why we don't have round houses in the American South where we get hurricanes almost every year.

@lowlandnobleman6746

4 жыл бұрын

Basically because everyone down here either like tae building large bland rectangles with little tae no decoration, or sleek, angular houses which look decent but don’t do very well against storms. I’d prefer a roundhouse the size of my bedroom over a two story house built in modern visage.

@gaelnaeireann8365

4 жыл бұрын

@@lowlandnobleman6746 for me I would live in a round house or cottage

@tank2967

4 жыл бұрын

didn't the native americans in the southeast also build roundhouses?

@the_moon_wolfy

3 жыл бұрын

@@tank2967 They did, & so did the Taino of the Caribbean. Specifically designed to endure hurricanes.

It's a great plesure to hear you, Fortress of Lugh! Thanks a bunch for share your valorous and amazing video. Many blessings to you.

We are building our round house in central France loosely based on an English ironage one ( although we will have windows. We decided on a round house because when you are inside, it gives you a big hug.

In Northern Iberia, these round houses were often located around hill forts. These sites were called ‘Castros’ by the Celtiberians. The Castro culture persisted in eastern Asturies and Cantabria (in the protective highlands of the Picos de Europa) well into the Roman period. In fact, unlike Galicia - with its lucrative/coveted silver mines (which incentivized Rome to establish a robust and longstanding presence in the northwest region) - most of the Astur-Cantabrian territory was comprised of low quality/poorly regarded land and was neglected accordingly by the Romans (with the exception of some roads and bridges intended to connect Roman settlements in Galicia, Girona, etc.) Were it not for the symbolic/ideological implications associated with Rome’s inability to conquer Cantabria and pacify its inhabitants - and material concern for the security of the silver mines that neighbored that hostile region - its possible that the Celtiberian Castro culture would have endured in a similar manner to that of the neighboring Basque culture in the East. Nevertheless, the inhabitants of many parts of Asturies and Cantabria would experience little-to-no change in the fundamental nature/expression of their culture throughout the course of Rome’s hegemonic presence in the peninsula. It would not be until well into the establishment of the Visigothic Kingdom (and the expulsion the Suevi, Vandals and Alans from Iberia) that the Visigoths would attempt to unify their vast kingdom under a common Hispano-Roman culture and Hispano-Gothic law. It was at this point that the Romanization of Hispania’s last Celts (the surviving tribes of the Astures and Cantabri) would begin to take form. The subsequent Moorish conquest of Iberia would result in an even deeper level of social cooperation and cultural diffusion/exchange between non-Muslim Iberians - culminating in the great victory of Don Pelayo’s (combined) Asturian-Gothic army over that of the Moors in the Covadonga highlands [and the subsequent dawn of the Reconquista] and the establishment of the first Spanish Kingdoms (Asturias and León ).

I had to pause to make sure Skyrim wasn't running in the background.

@djmaydraws3862

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@kianukasceltictales3403

3 жыл бұрын

It fits so perfectly I wouldn't even mind 😂

Scholars will never admit that Britons had superior housing for the commoner then the Romans during the same time period. It'd be swallowing too much pride.

@asgaard4

4 жыл бұрын

yes old generations of scholars dont look beyond their noses...i hope for the new scholars

@lowlandnobleman6746

4 жыл бұрын

That reminds me... Have ye lads(or lassies) ever noticed that scholars usually point tae the large houses of the elites as being examples of great architecture? They are certainly impressive in their own right, but those were houses where the upper class Greek-speaking Romans lived.

@lowlandnobleman6746

4 жыл бұрын

Mind you, most folks in Rome weren’t exactly Patricians.

@LobertERee

4 жыл бұрын

"We was Romans, et merda." ~Scholars

@gaelnaeireann8365

4 жыл бұрын

Roman housing looked like prison cells which I would never live in

I love the style of these round houses. I got a chance to see a few of them (as well as the ancient equivalent of security fencing and a fire escape) in Craggaunowen in Co. Clare many years ago.

Some people in Ireland still build these out in the country as a hobby

Thank you. Concise and informative.

Great video 😊 I just love that you put Skyrim soundtrack in the background. It's so good 😊

Ground up coal in the mead, actually helped in ridding the body of parasites. Whether they knew this or not. It actually helped them out health wise.

Another good one!

In a roundhouse it will be hard for an enemy to corner you and you have a better range of arm motion when fighting with a sword or club...

My guess is that coal mead was mead that had been filtered through charcoal. This would be expensive in materials and time and something reserved for a king.

Very interesting Thankyou

it is also easier to distribute heat evenly through out a round structure.

I’ve always wanted to build a cordwood house which are round by nature They’re very space INefficient, interiorly but u could make little hidey holes in the spaces needing to be squared off-cupboards, drawers and normal (triple pane) windows

@YeshuaKingMessiah

2 күн бұрын

Then heat with wood and put in skylights too Have good draft windows & doors for cross breezes in summer and maybe even dig down into the dirt to insulate lower walls. Maybe 2’? Besides digging a cellar under it all. Keep u cool in summer, warm in winter. Have an outside covered ramp to get down to door inside. Put a coat closet up there at exterior door too. A mudrm of sorts to keep out dirt.

Basically, because it was easier--didn't require hewn stone or sawn or adzed beams. You could use id river rock and many smaller beams. Very practical.

Great Channel I enjoy Learning about Ancient Celt's pls keep making Videos on them Education is Key Also Why Didn't Rome War With Greece or Sparta

Coal (as in charcoal) is used as an anti parasitic in a lot of folk remedies and in natural agriculture today so...

The Celts had a high understanding of the world and planets.

I propose that the round shape is so that the 360 degree heat from the central fire can be most optimally utilised. Staying warm would have been a big priority for the iron age people, as our winters are long.

were round houses built close to each other?

⚔️ThX.Easier to weave branches into a rounded shape. I appreciate Ur insights.Inuvik, Mongols & ancient Africans use round housing structures too🛡

I could live in a roundhouse.

These huts are truly amazing!

Really informative, thanks! One point - the background music is loud and quite distracting!

Subscribe and like for you sir, its plenty to learn from you, good work thank you, n good luck

4:06 Well, and what SpaceX Crew Dragon model does here?

Love the skyrim music in the video lul :D

Round houses mainly occur in ancient Britain, and the coastal areas of Northern France and Spain. The change over to round was triggered at the end of the neolithic, when pressure on woodland and timber production prompted a change from square to round as a way of strengthening the buildings. I invite you to explore in more detail how experimental round houses have been constructed over the last five decades. kzread.info/dash/bejne/eICOxKOej9GyZ9Y.html

round houses come from the Unuit / eskimos , they invaded the vikings a lot back in the day , Way back in the day i think that's where they got it from , nobody else was building round houses at that time ... only africans later , the vikings also traded with them in goods and probably how to build warmer housing

What you think about the round houses of the Yomon culture in Japan? Also the lifestyle of the neolitic Yomon is like the West and north Europe cultures. I think main argument is, that round hoses are better against storm.

Ever built a tepee?

good

Coal-mead? Wonder if it's anything like gunpowder whiskey. They give it to dogs to make them go berserk for dogfighting.

the kind of house it sees in braveheart movie.

Why is everyone ignoring the Skyrim music in the background?!

@Taocat1

4 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised he hasn't gotten a copywrite strike.

@thiirane4279

4 жыл бұрын

I am not ignoring:D

windy bois... dur

Charcoal is used for dirriaha/ upset stomach. the white part of leftover from a fire is LYE IN ITS DRY FORM. and used to make soap.

"LE MUD HUTS, THE CELTS HAD MUD HUTS HAA" >Scottish brochs

When I think "Celts" I think fermented Potatoes.

How else were they supposed to mount there curved TVs ?

Yurts Tepees Igloos Cordwood houses (with glass pop bottle accents/windows of a sort Many round houses thruout world history

Maybe the charcoal was added to ease the flatulents the next day - after a night on the mead it can get a little windy down south!

I love the Skyrim soundtrack

Μπραβο. Απλος και περιεκτικος σε πληροφοριες ,

I'd love to live in one

I'm a big of theese houses and cottages which 8 would love to live in

Fortress of lugh. Strange coincidence. I was searching roundhouses before bed. This was the first video when I awoke.

@ajrwilde14

3 жыл бұрын

not a coincidence that's how the algorithm works

I dont belave all that but my round house dose very well in storms

With no corners, these would help minimize spiderwebs.

As usual, the celts rom the iberian peninsula are completelly ignored... they did have roundhouses in Spain too, look up Castro / Castrexo culture. They were made out of stone tho.

Do you ever hear that the celts were actually black I was challenged on this today and their main argument was Celtic poems saying that celts were blacker then black

@gaelnaeireann8365

4 жыл бұрын

@@Drikkerbadevand nobody evolved

Cool.

"Proto Indo Europeans" have been matched with practices out of the famous 'Middle East' (meaning they migrated from the middle east) to an amount that makes The Word true. (matched practices with the practices of the famous Levitical priesthood of Israel Kingdom as well as practices out of Chaldea and Medes as they were eventually (700/500BC) invaded and taken by Assyrians and Chaldeans; as these displacements caused them to begin to migrate through the Caucuses/Asia Minor; and this is how they brought so much connections with them to 'Europe') . Hallelujah

You gotta be careful asking people to join the clan

It's good to be home

Very interesting. Great insight. Believe it or not the ancient Irish name "Conchobar" is not actually pronounced phonetically. It's more like (cru-huar).

@FortressofLugh

2 жыл бұрын

I generally pronounce aiming toward Old Gaelic, in which it is as one would more or less expect. The modern Gaelic language has softened significantly, losing sounds that were originally pronounced. Most people don't speak modern Irish, so this practice makes more sense to me as people are more likely to know it if they have come across it in writing.

@whiskeyvictor5703

Жыл бұрын

the CH is a fricative [x], like German Bach or Scottish Loch. The B is pronounced much like a V. Don't ask why. That's just the crazy nature of Old Irish (Sengoidelc)! 😁

Gallaecian celts, in Northwest modern Spain- Galicia, built their houses round

@nb9419

3 жыл бұрын

Not exactly, Galicia hillforts present many rectangular-shaped houses, as you will probably know.

@serbarr2087

3 жыл бұрын

@@nb9419 Nuria please look at:es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castro_(fortificaci%C3%B3n): El castro es un poblado fortificado que se empezó a habitar desde el siglo VI a. C., carente de calles que formen ángulos rectos y llenos de construcciones de planta casi siempre circular. (The castro (oppidium) is a village that started to be inhabited since the VI century BC, with no streets that forms angles, and full of constructions almost always round)

The Chief's quarters at the top were also the warmest quarters.

@ajrwilde14

3 жыл бұрын

no the smoke collected at the top as there was no chimney

@jeremiahshine

3 жыл бұрын

@@ajrwilde14 That's true. I imagine our ancestors that needed to stay warm soon realized certain things like rocks and clay hold heat. I don't think they had THAT much smoke. The Roman Censor was used to hold hot rocks in the tent. The Lakota channeled the exhaust of a fire through a channel in the ground with rock slabs as the top of the channel and dirt over that. The Earth heated up. Voila... heated floors. You can even put the fire outside.

Can't believe no comments yet about the Skyrim music.........

There were 13 months a year until Pope Gregory... multiply 13 by 28. 13 moons,

If you needed longer roof timbers you could just incorporate pillars to hold up aditional timbers . But then again heating a bigger area is more effort. A larger roof may have larger leaks. I think it worth while to look at some of the stone buildings in scotland for comparison . Coal meade = guinness extra extra stout ?

I like the Skyrim music

On the Northern coast of Spain, in Asturias, most of hillforts present round buildings. However if one goes to the East or southwards, then the rectangular ones are more common. Celts were Indo-European peoples, hence we can deduce that houses should be rectangular. Luckily I made a visit to one of those Asturian hillforts with the archaeologist who had been excavating there. When asked about it he told me that the previous substrat had to do with it. That is to say, the round house was not Celtic in origin. They adapted to a way of building that was not their own. Maybe we are so obsessed with the Celtic world that we are leaving aside the fact that Atlantic cultures were very likely in contact from an earlier period. Let me remind you that both Asturies and Brittany or the British Isles present similar megalithic monuments. Asturies is full of dolmens, Brittany of menhires and Ireland or Britain also have the same kind of constructions. Therefore we should conclude that it is not only the Celtic factor the one we all have in common, but more. And DNA analyses seem to prove that. The most genetically similar to Asturians in Europe are the Irish! 😉

@FortressofLugh

3 жыл бұрын

It seems the beaker people introduced the building model, and they were Indo-European. The prior culture did not build roundhouses, but houses of various shapes, the most round being oblong. I have looked at reports of Neolithic building in Britain. They didn't build roundhouses. Roundhouses were not prominent until well into the Bronze Age.

The roundtent is not called like I just did.

You have a major timeline error here. Roundhouses predate both the Babylonian Zodiac and the roman 12 month calendar by millennia. While it may well be true that celts adopted and integrated the ideas behind the zodiac into their daily lives at some point, it has nothing at all to do with the basic form of their housing.

Ancient people worshiped the sun, moon, and stars.. circles & cycles where very important spiritual representations.

blimey that was a bit of a stretch i wanted to find out why they built them, and i got some waffle about flat earth

@odinoky5814

Жыл бұрын

the earth is round

WHEN

Why did the Celts build roundhouses? They cut corners!

They built New Grange that way

I do not agree with that Y-DNA Migration map. My personal conclusion is that there was a migration from Siberia via the Southern Urals into Europe of Y-DNA Haplogroup R1 individuals with R1b originating somewhere near the Urals or even further East during or just after the Last Glacial Maximum. The older R1b clads (If they were correctly assigned) in the Middle East most probably arrived there with Turkic migrations from Central Asia/Southern Siberia much later....

@cenkefeler2908

3 жыл бұрын

I agree with you I am writings to support you. The origin of R1b haplogroup where its density is still very high belongs to Bashkurd or Bashkır People. They are a Turkic tribe. They were probably in that Region when haplogroup R1b emerged first about 18 thousand years ago. They spoke a Turkic language then. They still speak a Turkic language. We know this from cave paintings in Sölgentaş cave (the name of the cave) itself is Turkic where there are symbols like the Letter A which represents the Turkic word Aş meaning food. Thanks to the famous Central Asian Turkic researcher and historian Kazım Mirşan who spoke 16 languages mostly Central Asian. He investigated many caves in Asia with his German archeologist friend whose name I do not remember. You can watch their videos on you tube. These Başkurt people have always been there and have always spoken a Turkic language. The People who live in the eastern Black sea Region in Turkey have the highest R1b haplogroup about 30 percent. They look similiar to Scottish and İrish and German they have blue eyes they are mostly blond or have rarely reddish hair. Their dances and musical instruments look like İrish and Scottish folk dances and instruments. If you have not read it yet please read the article by the famous Russian Geneologist Kysolov called "Overview of Turkic Genetics" where he claims that R1b is a Turkic Marker. In that article he explains how R1b common ancestors lost their Turkic language starting about 8000 years ago when the Indo European languages started to emerge. R1b is at least 18 thousand years old, Indo European languages are at most 10 thousand years old. What language did the early R1b carriers our ancestors speak before they started to leave their homeland near Ural Mountains northwestern Kazakistan after the Last ice age ended about 12 thousand years ago?

@richern2717

3 жыл бұрын

@@cenkefeler2908 We have to look at when the Genetic makeup of the Turkic peoples occurred. Remember there were migrations of some R1bs towards the East by the Afanasevo Culture who basically formed out of the Repin Culture of the Don/Volga region...Some very old R1b Haplogroups were found in the area between the Caucasus Mountains and Don River. (Ancient Samples). And the Mesolithic peoples living between the Urals and the Baltics were majority Y-DNA Haplogroup R1b, 10 000 years ago. I don't know if any of todays languages can be linked to a Language Family older than 10 000 years. Remember one or two words doesn't make a dictionary...and languages can change very rapidly... Regarding the Turkic speaking Bashkirs we know that there were much later migrations from Central Asia through that area during historic times... So my guess is that early R1bs spoke something close to the Language Family of the people of Mal'ta Buret. And by close I mean the difference between Early Proto-Indo-European +- 6000 years ago and Modern English or at best Lithuanian. If we take the proposed 10 000 year border line into consideration we see that R1b men already evolved into another Language Family/Families distinct from Mal'ta Buret around 14 000 years ago. So basically the Language of Villabruna people with R1b was totally different from Mal'ta Buret People with very little to no similarities between the two etc.

@richern2717

3 жыл бұрын

@@cenkefeler2908 Remember that the study of genetics evolved rapidly and previous conclusions rarely holds water today. The best is to look at Ancient Samples. This way we know Who Where Where When. Previously the Basque people also were postulated to be the origins of R1b. But now we know with Ancient Samples and other Mutations found among R1b men that this is not the case. So in short currently I will not venture further East than the Urals for the formation of R1b. Naturally Haplogroup R1 is a whole other story and any place from Lake Baikal to the Urals is a greater possibility. So basically we have to keep up to date with the Latest Studies and not be to ridgit with our conclusions.

@richern2717

3 жыл бұрын

@@cenkefeler2908 One year ago when I wrote the above there were only one sample of a certain very old Subclad under R1b found near the Altai and if I remember correctly among the Botai Culture also one similar. In the meantime this Subclad was found in a much older sample West of the Urals. So this shifted the whole picture Westwards. So let's wait and see what new surprises Ancient Samples hold for us.

@richern2717

3 жыл бұрын

@@cenkefeler2908 So the migration map for R1b currently fans out from somewhere between the Caucasus Mountains, Don River and Southern Urals. Some expanding from that region to the West between 18 000 and 14 000 years ago and others expanding out of that region both Eastwards and Westwards during the Eneolithic starting around 6000 years ago reaching the Altai and Mongolia around +-5000 years ago and Ireland +-4000 years ago.

The round house is just the next step of shelter evolution . the previous shelter was poles leaned on a tree around the trunk .

@milliosmiles5160

3 жыл бұрын

Working on it ;¬)

Roadhouse

Duh. To prevent people pissin in the corner...

Roundhouses had nothing to do with the stone circles *henges Stonehenge was started several centuries before the great pyramids, & more relevant, ar least a 1000 years before roundhouses replaced the rectangular or irregularly built wooden framed animal skin 'shelters ' and other styles that existed. Historians assume things like thst , Well its round so must be to do with Stonehenge and the like Which weren't used in the same way or reasons over its millennia before jesus was born.

I am the truth! and my worth shall read by you that you might know the worth I said you take true!

I think you've been drinking too much of that Irish whiskey. Jeez!

the peoples know the world is round for thousand of years. the navigators knew it. anyone who got up a mountain saw it. if the world is flat, stuff don't disapear at the horizon. the fade away. In reality, the go DOWN. The greek knew it too..

@odinoky5814

Жыл бұрын

The facts are

Pros: - super easy to plan and measure on site (all you need is a rope and 1 peg) - the roof is light and can be build from inferior wood (no central beams, no need to hew logs, logs can be thin) - natural resistance to wind - +1 favor with circle loving gods Cons: - hard to practically section/divide the interior - terrible for urban planning (you can fit more squares/rectangles behind walls than circles because there is a lot of dead space between circles) - very hard to build a second floor (second floor pretty much needs its own load bearing system of pillars - super hard to go big with these - need a lot of hands to build (mainly due to complicated roof) conclusion: small relatively scattered houses are fine, but for urban society or larger houses - rectangles > circles

I dont agree with the flat disc hypothesis. ancient irish knew the stars. fourknocks is in the shape of cygnus constellation. equinoxes and summer and winter solstices were known to the ancients, the druids and to architects. sanskrit has much in common with old Irish. Many places in the past used a Base 20 number system until Rome got it's way. fiche is irish for 20. fichead a fifth of a hundred twenty, Irish fiche, ar fhichid, Old Irish fiche, g. fichet, Welsh ugeint, ugain, Cornish ugens, ugans, Breton ugent, *vikn@.s, uikn@.tos; Latin vîginti; Greek @Gei@'/kosi; Zend vîçaiti. So I'll start with french. quatre-vingts is 80. The Breton celts like the old Irish were using a base 20 in their mathematics. 4 x 20 . Greeks and Roman's used base 10. Decimal. Ireland's language morphed from base 20 to 10 with occupation. I would argue that 'score' (scoru in old english most likely came from Africa "oru" means 20. Sc(or)u/gold was measured in forearm lengths and the number 20 is at the end of forearm according to Aztec measurements. (Yes mesoamerican Aztecs) There are thousands of languages but these seem to be the prominent ones with Vigesimal/base 20: Manx, Cornish, Breton, Irish, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Yoruba(W Africa), Tzotzil(Mayan 1800bc -250ad ), Alamblak (Papua New Guinea ), Supyire (Niger Congo) mix Danish(messy but 20 is fractioned after 50) Babylonian (base 60) Aztecs (1300 to 1521) Shigir Idol (siberia 11500 years old) French (from breton above?) Inuit languages (Kaktovik Inupiaq numerals) Khmer Cambodia language derived from sanskrit Basque Egypt Galician Possibly Ainu (japan) Uyghur Chinese If you want to build structures that are based on equinox and solstice as some people did here five and half thousand years ago then 20 is more useful for hours, minutes, days and also 360° . People and animals were also counted in 20s. The babylonians and Greeks may have written it down but we preferred word of mouth before we were deleted! the error most people make is assuming the oral lore cultures couldn't write and therefore knew nothing. how much of what greeks and Roman's knew was simply a documentation of the oral lore cultures? all of Ireland's folklore can be seen in the night sky.

So the devil couldn't get them in the corner.

Go raibh míle maith agat for this

Luth*

Nonsense.. they had both round and squared. Iberia had both

So when parents make love, does their children see them?

Just a practical thought: If roundhouses were introduced by migratory siberians, it might be that they were reflecting their ancestors' use of yurts.

@richern2717

4 жыл бұрын

If you look at the construction of the Mal'ta Buret Cultures huts you can almost see a link. Low stone wall and the the "teepee" was constructed over it. Mal'ta Buret was the Culture where the oldest individual with Y-DNA Haplogroup R Male was found. Y-DNA Haplogroup R1b Males which are dominant in Western Europe today are basically descendants of these people.

The earth is flat, got it.

Celts where the first flat earthers?

@theblackcelt

9 ай бұрын

That wrong