Reconstruction drawing of Iron Age dwelling, Maiden Castle family, by Paul Birkbeck
"The forests are their cities; for they fence in a spacious circular enclosure with trees which they have felled, and in that enclosure make huts for themselves and also pen up their cattle — not, however, with the purpose of staying a long time. Their weather is more rainy than snowy; and on the days of clear sky fog prevails so long a time that throughout a whole day the sun is to be seen for only three or four hours round about midday. And this is the case also among the Morini and the Menapii and all the neighbours of the latter."
-Strabo, Geography, Book 4 Chapter 5
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| Reconstruction drawing of Iron Age dwelling, Maiden Castle family, by Paul Birkbeck. |
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