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Fine arts > Architecture > Vernacular architecture > Lake dwellings

Preferred term

Lake dwellings

Definition(s)

Ancient dwellings built over the shallow waters of a lake shore or marsh, usually erected on pile-supported platforms, but sometimes on artificial mounds [NCE]

Broader concept(s)

Vernacular architecture

Narrower concept(s)

Crannogs

Related concept(s)

Houses

Synonym(s)

LACUSTRIAN DWELLINGS
LACUSTRINE DWELLINGS
Pile dwellings

Notation

111287

In other languages

Architecture lacustre

French
MAISON SUR PILOTIS

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-RB3S01VL-0

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