A crannog is typically a partially or entirely artificial island, usually built in lakes and estuarine waters of Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. They were used as dwellings over five millennia, from the European Neolithic Period to as late as the 17th/early 18th century [1600×1976]
by Fuckoff555
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[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crannog](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crannog)
I want one
The Mexica/Aztec did that in Mexico City too.
Why did they build over the water when the land would have been easier to live on?
It really shows how vulnerable early people were to violence, given the lengths they’d go to build an easily defensible position like this. I imagine you slept much better in a crannog than you did even in a ring fort, which are everywhere in Ireland.
Come on OP, you know you want to, technically also Venice is a crannog, they are just a bit more modern and fancee.
Which is the Crannog in the upper half of the image?