Bronze Age farmhouse

Bronze Age farmhouse


The Bronze Age farmhouse is made of ash and alder-wood. The walls are made of sods and the roof is thatched with straw. Dug round the house is a drainage ditch. In this type of farmhouse people and cattle lived under the same roof. From the Bronze Age to the 19th century this was quite a normal way of living.

Mixed farming, at which cattle breeding and agriculture supported each other, originated in the Bronze Age. Cattle provided the manure for the fields and the pulling power for e.g. the plough. The fields provided, among others, the feed for the animals. The Bronze Age farmers grew wheat, barley, millet, peas and flax. They also kept cows, sheep, goats and pigs. Hunting and fishing were no longer important for the food supply

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