Rethinking Roundhouses: later prehistoric settlement in Britain and beyond

Review by Trevor Creighton This book is, in part, an update of D W Harding’s 2009 publication, The Iron Age Roundhouse. Significant new insights from the author justify the updated title, however. The chronology now extends from the later Neolithic into the post-Roman period. Furthermore, the roundhouse is treated not as a specifically British phenomenon, but considered in relation to Irish and north-eastern European archaeology. The constructional aspects of roundhouses are reconsidered with considerable insight, as is the relationship between structured spaces in roundhouses and later rectilinear buildings. While Rethinking Roundhouses provides a useful snapshot of the state of