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These pictures help you to see how the building materials in the CAT KIT were used.

    
     
Reconstruction of a Bronze Age house
found at Holywell Coombe near Folkestone. The walls are made of timber and the roof is thatched.		 Canterbury in the Late Iron Age. Walls of houses were made with wattle and clay daub. The roofs were thatched. Courtesy of Canterbury Museums ©.

This house is at Butser in Hampshire. It was built by experimental archaeologists in the 20th century, in a style used by people in the Iron Age.. This is what archaeologists think Canterbury looked like in Roman times. Search this website for more information. [LARGER IMAGE]

Some houses in Roman Canterbury had floors
decorated with mosaics. 		This Roman floor was found right outside Canterbury Cathedral! Can you see the mosaic? This floor belonged to a huge Roman house found at THE BIG DIG in Canterbury in 2002.

This small oven was found in the huge Roman house at THE BIG DIG. At a Roman bath house you could swim, get clean and meet friends. Underfloor heating warmed the water in the baths. Roman underfloor heating system (hypocaust).

Flue tile from a Roman heating system. Roman cats and dogs left their paw prints on these tiles!

This is what archaeologists think Canterbury looked like
in Anglo-Saxon times. Search this website for more information. [LARGER IMAGE]		 The walls of Anglo-Saxon houses were made with wattle (woven branches) and daub (clay).

All that we found of this Anglo-Saxon house were the holes where the upright posts had rotted away. This is how The Artichoke pub at Chartham looked in medieval times. The clay roof tiles were made in the Tyler Hill kilns near Canterbury.

A medieval roof seen from the inside. Each clay tile was hung over the rafters by a wooden ‘peg’. This Tudor wall painting was found in a house at St Dunstan’s, Canterbury.

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