In the Fall of 2010, we had many Alside window sets put in. When Spring came, we opened all but four of the windows 1/4 to 1/2 way. We never fully closed and locked the windows until late July/early August when the hurricane was due to come up the east coast.
Almost everybody in the Iron Age was involved in farm work and that goes for women and children, too. In order to prepare the land people used a special kind of plough, an ard, which was pulled by a couple of oxen. That was probably the men's part of the work. Very few people were actual artisans.
Iron Age Roundhouse. Until the railways and fast road transport brought mass production and homogeneity to the materials we use to build our homes, most people lived in houses that were constructed from local materials lying readily to hand.e admire the quaint âolde worldâ villages that seem to have grown from the landscape in which they are located â although, of course, we tend to prefer the comforts of living that standardised materials and components have brought to modern buildings.