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Stone Age Neolithic House - 3, 800 BC Primitive Technology

Stone Age Neolithic House - 3, 800 BC Primitive Technology

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Here is a Stone Age Primitive House inspired by the 4, 000 BC Horton Neolithic House excavated in Berkshire, England. Built with a Scots Pine roundwood timber frame, and 12 tons of reed thatch for the roof. With wattle and daub walls, a solid oak timber frame entrance with deer skin doors and complete with fire pit and deer skin beds inside. This replica Primitive House built at Butser Ancient Farm was inspired by the finds of Wessex Archeology. Only post holes and faint outlines of the foundations were discovered in Berkshire, England. We can only guess that the structure would have used a basic timber frame structure, likely an A-frame roof to shed water, and being near the river Thames, likely covered in water reed for the thatched roof.
Date: 2023-02-11

Comments and reviews: 15


Very cool I see a lot of the same construction techniques that you used in your builds!
Here in Atlantic Canada. we have a few working historical locations. with the biggest being Fort Louisburg on the east coast of Nova Scotia, which is a 17th century French fort with complete structures working bakeries, blacksmith shops, etc.
We have Kings Landing in Fredericton, NB, a which is a 1800's working village recreation. very quaint that has a working water mill for sawing lumber and grinding grain.
There is also Lance Aux Meadows in Newfoundland. which is a Viking settlement from about 1000 AD. which has stone turf and living roof construction.

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Alright mate, I've been watching other sites and they have been talking about if modern humans have been around for 2 or 3 hundred thousand years, how is it that in the last 3000 years we have come from the stone age to flying round in planes and going to other planets, what did they do for the previous 297, 000 years it doesn't seem things are the way we are told. It doesn't make sense that for nearly all of the time we have been around we didn't achieve much until the last little bit of our existence we've achieved so much. I don't think the history books know half as much as they think
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Excellent school trip offering. The thing I love about history is that once found, we can have it forever. Amazing to know this is such a recent find, 2018, and how the development of this one building was effected by our modern history of the pandemic and costs. This is wonderfully inspirational. It makes me appreciate your continuing homage to these building techniques in your bush craft builds. Great video, thanks!
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It's sort of amazing that your versions of the Saxon/Viking builds mirror these historically accurate recreations. I know you did moderate research on what to do, but more or less built practically and within your means. So the things you did proved that ancient people did the same as your builds actually is functional by using similar principles hundred of years later.
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That building is huge. how many people lived in there I wonder. Sometimes buildings were the leaders house and/or meeting houses for the village. The ancients mostly were immediate family units, parents, children, sometimes grand parents. The immediate surrounds would have had to provide for the number of people you had in your group.
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its all very guess work, probably didnt look like this at all back then. i doubt very much that they would use thatched roofs more likely they used skins for a roofing. also the tools they made doubled up as weapons. anyway it was probably a horrific life back then for most people. not all sitting around doing crafts and being serene.
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It's unfortunate the British have lost their ways, what was once a place of pride has been lost. I remember going on a school trip some where in East of England that was set in the very early period, had fake heads on poles, thatched roof houses, pigs roaming about. But i've never been able to remember where it was.
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be aware that the structure in the video is not Historical fact. its archeology and trying to discover how people built buildings and what materials they used back then as the lady kept saying its all experimental. i thought she was marvelous and i hope she is appreciated
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I wish you'd do a big project like that house in the video. I know you did a house in the past but I wanna see you do a bigger one on your new land. It'd be dope. But this video is great. Did you learn anything new that you'll use in the future? Just curious
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I love this stuff of my scots and Norwegian ancestors and how they lived. Here in the states i got to study up close my native blood. As my father was scos and creek injun and my mother pure viking lol. Thanx for taking us along on your journey.
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Nice & interesting video Mike. So. What is going to be YOUR bushcraft build a smaller version. And they did bring in their live stock, into the home. Especially when winter came. As it helped keeping them safe, & more bodies give off heat.
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primitive ancestors, said by people who cannot do a quarter of the thing our ancestors could, work in mediocre repetetive office jobs and their only physical activity is getting in and out of their SUV. I don't mean you TA of course.
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That's a wonderful learning site I fell in love with a few areas in California that have 1800's Pilgrims villages people can walk thru and see how the towns people lived and survived! Another cool video- thanks
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I live about 10 minutes away from Butser Ancient Farm but I've never been. It's funny how we'll travel miles and miles to visit far off tourist attractions, but don't go to things that are right on our doorstep.
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Just some feedback, but i assume you got that already. Theres a high pitched noise in the sound of the Video. like at 9: 00.
Its not a big deal, but without it, would be nicer.

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