02-08-2007, 06:14 AM
Quote:authun:3ndyuqcd Wrote:grübenhäuser
Noo no no, the political correct word today is SFB's!
(SFB=sunken featured building).
Oh, indeed. Not 'Grub-huts'. 'Grubby-huts, perhaps... :lol:
Actually, the old idea that these 'Sunken floored/featured buildings'
meant that you walked down inside them, and that the floor was on
the bare earth a foot below ground-level, with the roof lying directly
on the ground, has been revised. At West Stowe, they've reconstructed
SFBs so that floor-boards lay over this cavity, at ground-level, so that
the boards were insulated from the cold and the damp. Unfortunately,
they were used over a wide period, and in the absence of any other
dating evidence, they can't be used to claim an Anglo-Saxon presence
before c.450.
Ambrosius / Mike
"Feel the fire in your bones."