Tiny Homes Of The Ancient World

Tiny Homes Of The Ancient World: Celtic Iron Age Roundhouses
May 29, 2020

In this pilot episode of our Tiny Homes Of The Ancient World series, we travel 2000 years back in time to the Celtic iron-age fort and roundhouses 0f Castell Henllys. So far on Living Big in a Tiny House, we have explored tiny homes and downsized architecture from all over the world. In this new series, we aim to reach far back into our historic and prehistoric past to explore the tiny homes of the ancient world.

This first episode takes us to Castell Henllys, An Iron Age Fort in Pembrokeshire, Wales. Built approximately 2000 years ago, these impressive roundhouses have been recently reconstructed based on archeological evidence. In this video, we explore the roundhouses, we learn how they were constructed and imagine the lives of the people who would have inhabited them.

Solo life: ancient hermit dwellings up the Meteora boulders

Archeologists argue that Meteora has been considered a holy place by hermits since the paleolithic, or several millennia before Christians were attracted by the majestic boulders in the area, which seem to belong to the long paths of geological time.

Later, in the holy place of Meteora and over the awe-inspiring rocks, monasticism flourished since Byzantine times, during which at least 24 monasteries were founded and maintained. Today, only six of them are inhabited: Great Meteoron, Varlaam, Roussano, St. Nikolas Anapausas, Holy Trinity, and St. Stephan's.

Meteora's archaeological site has been inscribed upon the UNESCO's World Heritage sites for protection given its universal value as a cultural landmark that benefits all humanity.

In the Orthodox Church and Eastern Rite Catholic Churches, hermits live a life of prayer and service to their community in the traditional Eastern Christian manner of the poustinik. The poustinik is a hermit available to all in need and at all times.

The term "anchorite" (from the Greek ἀναχωρέω anachōreō, signifying "to withdraw," "to depart into the country outside the circumvallate city") is often used as a synonym for hermit. Still, anchorites lived in the solitude of an "anchorhold" (or "anchorage"), usually a small hut or "cell."