Welcome to Paul Warrilow's Roundhouse Pages

The roundhouse is on our allotment at the cliff edge overlooking the Avon. In the cliff is Bucklewell cave, from which flows a small stream from the Shirehampton Holywell. Below high tide in the Avon are the remains of a late Mesolithic/early Neolithic fishing village. Rocks of from the cliff were possibly quarried at this time and taken upstream, and then up the river Trym for use in their chambered tomb. On the allotments above the cave there is a scatter of flints dating from the Palaeolithc thru' to the early Bronze Age, so the chances are that there were people here to welcome the original Bluestones form Preseli! Another find from the allotments is a polished stone disc (prob. late Neolithic - early Bronze Age) made of red serpentine - and therefore brought from the Lizard in Cornwall. Thousands of burnt stones around the cave show that the cave was used as a cooking site or even a sauna!
The roundhouse was built - along with a huge outdoor round table - for a party to welcome Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters on their Where's Merlin tour last year (I've included a few pics of their bus Further). We later visited them in Oregon for their Millenium Potlach.
Other pic's I'm sending are of us helping out at a 'reconstruction' site in Cornwall, and of the replica of Cabot's ship the Mathew passing the cave. We have taken over a bunch of derelict allotments and are looking for funds at the moment to open the site as an educational resource. We are hoping to have built a larger roundhouse by April next year - you are very welcome to stop and visit if you get the time.
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