Brythonic Huts pt. 2

08/04/2026 edit: Fixed the weights on the huts and their shadows. They seemed to be working fine anyway, but I'd recommend redownloading, just to be on the safe side.

02/04/2026 edit: Now the huts won't fade anymore, no matter how close in you zoom. It's no essential update, but if it was bugging you, please redownload! Same files, same instance numbers, everything will stay where you've placed it.

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Here come two more deco huts for your TS4 ancient Britons (or whomever else you imagine living in them). Now that I've covered the most common types, I could move on to designs which are more unusual, but still - at least according to Barry Cunliffe whom I trust blindly as long as we're not talking about Tartessian there I might have some doubts that's a swampy territory let's not go there - they possibly maybe could've been a thing at least in parts of Iron Age Britain.

Important: You need the tuning and at least one of the merged texture files from THIS post. Make sure to grab them!

The first design is very similar to the big hut from part one, but it's even bigger and has a kind of separated 'chimney' on the top. A huuuge, festive hut for special occasions - or at least that's what I imagine it to be.

In parallel to the tradition of simple ring-post houses, more complex structures developed. House I at Little Woodbury offers one of the clearest examples. Here two concentric circles of posts were erected, the inner circle being more massive and taking most of the weight of the roof timbers, the outer circle taking the slighter posts. The house is further complicated by the central setting of four timbers which served to support the centre of the roof, and possibly, at the same time, stood above the roof-level to create a louvre for smoke to escape. (...) The overall diameter of the house, 14 m, compares with three other large houses of the same general type (...). All four houses belong to the period from the eighth to the fifth century; at present no house of comparable size or complexity has been found in the later part of the Iron Age.

-- Barry Cunliffe, 2005: Iron Age Communities in Britain (4th edition)

Comes in the same versions as the bigger houses from the previous post: wattle, daub or limestone, MM or alpha.

The second hut is the exact opposite: a kind of temporary shelter, built in the most labour- & cost-saving way, more of an archaeological conjecture than a proven historical reality. But I like how different to your usual roundhouse it is - plus there was even a reconstruction drawing in the book, so I had no chance to resist its appeal 😉

While houses built of individual posts occur widely, and are likely to survive in most archaeological contexts, it is now clear that less substantial forms of house building were not infrequently employed. At Danebury, Hants, for example, the majority of the houses belonging to the Middle Iron Age were constructed of wattle based on vertical stakes some 2 cm in diameter driven into the ground at intervals of 10-15 cm. (...) The buildings varied in diameter from 6 to 9 m. How the roof was constructed is a matter of debate: (...) it is equally possible that some of the vertical poles were carried up and bound together at the apex to create the framework for a beehive-like structure entirely of wattle which could then have been weather-proofed with thatch. The door frames of the Danebury houses frequently had two vertical timbers on each side of the door with a space of 20-30 cm between. This would have provided a suitable framework to support a movable door of wattle which could have been slotted into place or removed at will.

--- ibid.

I made my version slightly smaller than the small roundhouse I shared last time, which makes it the tiniest of the crew. As per the quote above, it comes only in one version (well, MM or alpha, so technically two) - fully covered in thatch.

Find your new huts in misc. decorations (for 0$) or even better, by simply typing 'VS' in the search bar.

Pick your favourite version - or both if you want, why not? - grab the tuning and corresponding textures and enjoy!