Iron Age Roundhouses at Llynnon Mill.
Completed in 2007 these reproduction Iron Age Roundhouses at Llynnon now form part of a living museum on the Llynnon Mill site near the very rural Anglesey village of Llanddeusant. Ten metres in diameter, these roundhouses were constructed using the knowledge accrued from the lessons learned by archaeological researches hundreds of Iron Age community sites built by the Ancient Britons (Celts) 3000 years ago.
A simple template was defined and construction was undertaken by principle and experimentation. Materials harvested from the locality completed the ethic that would have constrained the original Iron Age dwellers.
Blas Llynnon, or Llynnon Mill, is a gristmill located on the outskirts of the village of Llanddeusant on the island of Anglesey. It is the only surviving working windmill in Wales.
A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill or flour mill) grinds grain into flour. The term can refer to both the grinding mechanism and the building that holds it.
From the late 18th century until the first half of the 19th century, Anglesey had about 50 working windmills and nearly as many watermills. The derelict towers of many of these windmills can still be seen today dotted across the countryside.
Llynnon Mill is only one to be restored to its original working condition and now produces flour once again. The mill was built in 1775 at cost of just over £550.00 and worked until 1918 when it suffered severe damage in a violent storm. It lay ruined for over 50 years until it was carefully restored and reopened as a working windmill and museum site in 1984.
Llynnon Mill represents the simple evolution from those early handmills of prehistoric times to the electricity producing wind turbines on the distant hills.
www.anglesey-hidden-gem.com/llynnon-iron-age-settlement.html
Iron Age Roundhouses at Llynnon Mill.
Completed in 2007 these reproduction Iron Age Roundhouses at Llynnon now form part of a living museum on the Llynnon Mill site near the very rural Anglesey village of Llanddeusant. Ten metres in diameter, these roundhouses were constructed using the knowledge accrued from the lessons learned by archaeological researches hundreds of Iron Age community sites built by the Ancient Britons (Celts) 3000 years ago.
A simple template was defined and construction was undertaken by principle and experimentation. Materials harvested from the locality completed the ethic that would have constrained the original Iron Age dwellers.
Blas Llynnon, or Llynnon Mill, is a gristmill located on the outskirts of the village of Llanddeusant on the island of Anglesey. It is the only surviving working windmill in Wales.
A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill or flour mill) grinds grain into flour. The term can refer to both the grinding mechanism and the building that holds it.
From the late 18th century until the first half of the 19th century, Anglesey had about 50 working windmills and nearly as many watermills. The derelict towers of many of these windmills can still be seen today dotted across the countryside.
Llynnon Mill is only one to be restored to its original working condition and now produces flour once again. The mill was built in 1775 at cost of just over £550.00 and worked until 1918 when it suffered severe damage in a violent storm. It lay ruined for over 50 years until it was carefully restored and reopened as a working windmill and museum site in 1984.
Llynnon Mill represents the simple evolution from those early handmills of prehistoric times to the electricity producing wind turbines on the distant hills.
www.anglesey-hidden-gem.com/llynnon-iron-age-settlement.html