Incredible 1000-year-old Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada.
The turf houses are built with timber frames that are load-bearing, and walls that are built with peat bricks that have been cut and dried from a nearby bog. Each wall actually has two layers of the bricks (inner and outer), with a layer of gravel sandwiched in the middle to help drain any moisture before it infiltrates to the interior of the structure.
It's incredible that the Vikings were able to build such beautiful and functional structures with limited building materials, and in such a harsh environment. The bog not only provided peat for building but bog iron they could use to create nails and other hardware they needed to repair their ships.
If you're interested, here's a link to our longer, more in-depth video about an Icelandic turf house: https://youtu.be/_7JFwLyrdJw
And here's a link where you can learn more about the L'Anse aux Meadows historic Viking settlement in Newfoundland:
http://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/nl/meadows
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