Inside sod building F, L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland

---

This is the entrance Building F (longhouse) at L'anse aux Meadows UNESCO Historic Site, Newfoundland. The house was reconstructed according the techniques for building sod houses used when the Vikings settled the area around 1000 AD. Sod houses have been built for centuries and examples are known from Norway, Iceland, Ireland and the Canadian and US prairies.

---

Size: 3333px × 5000px
Location: Unnamed Road, Saint Lunaire-Griquet, NL A0K 2X0, Canada
Photo credit: © Terry Allen / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

Keywords: aux, blocks, branches, building, cheap, construction, cool, dirt, door, entranceway, floor, historic, house, interior, lanse, lathes, longhouse, meadows, method, open, partition, pillars, rafters, recylable, site, sod, stringers, summer, thick, tourism, travel, turf, unecso, vertical, walls, warm, winter