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This study investigates the architectural complexities of the roundhouses of the Scottish Iron Age. Based on field inspections, survey drawings by the RCAHMS and surprisingly few modern excavation reports, complex Atlantic Roundhouses (cARs) are selected as a case study to identify objectives in spatial arrangements and structural design. The findings are compiled in a catalogue and visualised in reconstructions that do not propose standard solutions, but explore alternatives, primarily for building parts that do not survive: upper floors and roofs. Analogies for these reconstructions are derived from the record of post-medieval architecture of rural Scotland that shows a similar regionality to cARs regarding material and construction. The results suggest that cARs were architecturally highly developed buildings, a product of experience and experiment, with no evidence for strict standardisation.

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