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Pit dwellings

Scope note

Use for houses, common during the prehistoric periods of many cultures, whose floors are dug out deeply below the adjacent ground level; use "sunken huts" for multipurpose buildings of the first millennium CE, found in England and throughout northern Europe.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000137644

Equivalent Terms used

pit dwelling

Created

13yrs ago

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