Iron Age mound

Iron Age mound

11/02/2015

The two farms on the mound were built as a reconstruction of an excavated plot on the mound of Ezinge, dated 400-200 BC. To avoid wet feet due to the rising sea, the tide has been raised to the ground. This is the beginning of a mound. These houses have walls of wickerwork foisted with cow dung. The roofs are thatched. In the marsh, not all crops grow as well. It grows flax, barley, beans and kind of rape, but the emphasis here is on cattle breeding. The farms theefore have a stable area.

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