Building a Medieval Village in 32 Days: Bushcraft Skills Bushcraft Shelters

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Building a medieval village in 32 days using bushcraft skills and simple hand tools. We build a medieval viking house, celtic roundhouse and saxon pit house using resources found in nature. These bushcraft shelters were inspired by the ancient history of Britain: Anglo Saxons, Vikings and Celts. The Viking House was built in 10 days. The frame is made from cedar trees. We burnt the ned of the logs using an ancient technique (similar to shou sugi ban. This helps to preserve the wood in the ground from rot and bugs. We then peeled the bark off the cedar tree and tiled the roof with these shingles. We dug a viking longpit and lined it with stones and clay. We then made a folding window and raised beds. The Saxon House was also built in 10 days. For this we built the timber frame from pine. We used mortise and tenon joinery with hand tools to make the frame sturdy and self-holding. We then weaved sticks in and out for the walls and covered this with a clay and straw mixture (wattle and daub. We then thatched the roof with water reed and capped the ridge with long straw. The door we built from reclaimed wood and hand forged nails. Inside we built a small circle firepit and raised bed. The window is made entirely from natural materials, wood pegs, wedges and joinery. The Celtic Roundhouse was built in 12 days. The round frame was made with cedar trees which had the bark peeled and ends burnt to preserve the wood for longer in the ground. We then built a medieval fence using wattle and daub (hazel sticks and clay/straw/ash mix. We used these to make the walls of the roundhouse. We used hazel battens and purlins and then for the roof we also thatched this with water reed and made a cap of long straw
Date: 2021-06-17

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Comments and reviews: 8

Jacqueline
Great showing of all three of these incredible builds! I know that I for one loved to see the step by step process that went into their being in the world. You have put in a massive amount of time and effort to bring us this footage. I cant wait to see what you will create next! You always have amazing footage and I really enjoy the content! Keep up the good work. I can't wait for your next video!
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Janet
You guys are amazing! What do you do with all of the things you build? Are you building them for yourselves or for someone or for historical reasons? I'm just curious. I've never seen anyone work as hard as you all do. Great work and fascinating to watch. Thank you.
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MrGoesBoom
Great compilation of some fantastic builds! Outta curiosity how's the Viking house holding up? It's been up the longest and all that bark looked like a massive pain in the butt to peel off and get up there
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yarinya13
Wow, this is amazing! Your craftsmanship and dedication are incredible. And the cooking too! Thank you for taking the time to make this video. We can all learn so much from it.
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stephen
well It might be one of the hardest edits but you know also very relaxing mucho needed in this continuing struggle times your dad so chilled he even needed a lie down lol
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друг
You are so lucky to have friends and family to help you do these things. I'm really envious, I hope to do similar projects at some point.
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Iron
Where do you get your tools? Do you have books showing how to build those things? I love your videos, thank you for sharing!
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KingCashYT
I m loving these videos these are definitely skills that are very important to have. Keep up the fantastic work
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