From Celtic Village to Iron Age Farmstead: Lessons Learnt from Twenty Years of Building, Maintaining and Presenting Iron Age Roundhouses at St Fagans National History Museum

From Celtic Village to Iron Age Farmstead: Lessons Learnt from Twenty Years of Building, Maintaining and Presenting Iron Age Roundhouses at St Fagans National History Museum

This article summarises the main issues that were faced in running a group of reconstructed Iron Age roundhouses as an educational and visitor resource at St Fagans National History Museum from 1992 until 2013. Plans to build a new Iron Age farmstead at St Fagans are then outlined along with the ste...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Steve Burrow
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EXARC 2015-11-01
Series:EXARC Journal
Subjects:
archaeological open-air museum
construction of building
iron age
united kingdom
Online Access:https://exarc.net/ark:/88735/10219
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Summary:This article summarises the main issues that were faced in running a group of reconstructed Iron Age roundhouses as an educational and visitor resource at St Fagans National History Museum from 1992 until 2013. Plans to build a new Iron Age farmstead at St Fagans are then outlined along with the steps that will be taken to learn from past experience and further improve the quality of the visitor experience in future.
ISSN:2212-8956

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