Ruined longhouse, Carloway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland
Europe[edit] A reconstructed Viking chieftain's longhouse at the Lofotr Viking Museum in Lofoten, Norway. The Neolithic long house type was introduced with the first farmers of central and western Europe around 5000 BCE—7000 years ago. These were farming settlements built in groups of about six to twelve and were home to large extended families and kinship.[1] The Germanic cattle farmer longhouses emerged along the southwestern North Sea coast in the third or fourth century BC and might be the ancestors of several medieval house types such as the Scandinavian langhus, the English,[2] Welsh and Scottish longhouse variants and the German and Dutch Fachhallenhaus. The longhouse is a traditional way of shelter. The medieval longhouse types of Europe of which some have survived are among others: Dartmoor granite longhouse The Western British () 'Dartmoor longhouse' variants in Devon, Cornwall,[3] and Wales where it is known as the Ty Hir [4] Located along a slope, a single passage gives access to both human and animal shelter under a single roof. The northwest England type in Cumbria[5] The Scottish Longhouse, "blackhouse" or taighean dubha[6] The Western French longère[7] or maison longue from Lower Brittany, Normandy, Mayenne, Anjou, (also in the Cantal, Lozère and the Pyrenees Ariège) is very similar to the western British type with shared livestock quarters and central drain. The old Frisian Langhuis that developed into the Frisian farmhouse which probably influenced the development of the Gulf house (German: Gulfhaus), that spread along the North Sea coast to the east and north. The Scandinavian or Viking Langhus/Långhus and mead hall. (wikipedia) The blackhouse seems to have been common in the Outer Hebrides till the 1930s
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Location: Carloway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland
Photo credit: © Lars Ørstavik / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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