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

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 . The cause of the

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