ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns the way Late Iron Age buildings are part of the formation of social and individual identities. It centres on production huts tied to a lower, predominantly female, stratum of society. These huts may be pit houses with internal roof supports or freestanding framework buildings with corner posts. Pit houses, compared to the freestanding ones, are more abundant in the archaeological record because they are inexpensive to build and easy to record. Framework buildings prove more difficult to detect. Rural communities, mixing farm houses and huts, are understood as market-orientated production sites employing and supervising a workforce. Because solitary production huts adjacent to main farm buildings expressed a social norm established prior to production growth, farm owners preferred hut clusters to larger weaving houses.
