Living in the Bronze Age

This section of the gallery looks at how people lived in the Bronze Age. This is done using a life-size model of part of a Bronze Age roundhouse and a typical Bronze Age family of parents and child.

The Bronze Age house (in South-East England) was a round 'hut' made of timber and other readily-available material.

The house at Dover Museum has a wooden structure of two rings of posts. One ring of posts makes up the outside wall of the hut. This is built of wattle hurdles covered in mud. The second ring of posts hold up the roof. The roof is made of hurdles covered with turf. The evidence for this sort of house comes from holes found on archaeological sites, where the posts would have been. Light would have come from a fire in the centre of the hut, and from the doorway, which faced south.