How to Start a Roundhouse Roof (Archive Clip)

A guide to starting a roundhouse roof, based at Butser Ancient Farm in Hampshire, UK. Using this method to erect the first rafters, no scaffolding is needed. This works up to a house diameter of around ten meters.

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Butser Ancient Farm is an open-air experimental archaeology museum and active research centre, learning about the past by recreating it.

Our experiments are world-renowned, and our buildings include a Roman villa, Celtic village, Stone Age farm, and Saxon halls — all reconstructed from real UK archaeology, and open to be explored!

We do everything we can do share our passion for the past, from visitor opening and school groups to filming our experiments for bitesize documentaries!

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