Iron age roundhouse rises from the ashes on shores of Scottish lake

Volunteers are helping to build a replica crannog on Loch Tay after an earlier model burned down two years ago

On the shores of Loch Tay, slices of dark turf are piled high alongside bundles of pale reeds. Over the month of May, local volunteers will turn these raw materials into a replica iron age roundhouse, in what will mark a rising from the ashes for one of Scotland’s best-loved living history museums.

In June 2021, the Scottish Crannog Centre suffered a devastating blow when its replica roundhouse burned down in just six minutes. The cause of the blaze has not been ascertained, though police have ruled out anything suspicious.