Incredible Stone Age House: Primitive Technology 3,800BC

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.

Discover more ancient technology at Butser Ancient Farm:

Watch more in depth video documentary films from Butser Ancient Farm:

These are amazon affiliate links

TIKTOK: @taoutdoorofficial

#stoneage #primitivetechnology #primitive #house #bushcraft

[Jams]

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.

[ingeleonora-denouden]

Very interesting time period, the neolithic. Here we have the Hunebedcentrum in Borger (Drenthe, the eastern part of the Netherlands). I'm now one of the volunteer 'prehistoric people' there to demonstrate ancient techniques (I do textiles, how they used plant fibers)

[ItsASuckyName]

This reminds me of a park/open air museum here in The Netherlands called "Archeon". They cover history from prehistoric times all the way into medieval times, you can walk around and enter everything, there are all sorts of buildings, temple's, farms, forges, bakers
from all those different era's, activities(mostly for children), shows, people with the right clothing and armor from their era that will tell and demonstrate things. Really worth visiting.

[BUSHCRAFTTOOLS]

Reminds me of the Roundhouse we built a few years back.

[gusgone]

There is no reason to think that our ancestors were less inventive than we are today. Their tool kit was obviously limited when compared to our modern equivalent. But I 'm sure they were very skilled in it's use.
We call the Neolithic a stone age because of the tools we have found. However, the material stone tools fashion best is wood! Perhaps we should remind ourselves of that and rename it the woodworking age.

[ardentaxiom]

As someone who loves history and archeology, I enjoyed this content, Mike, looking forward to more! I've been a subscriber for a couple years now and I know this type of stuff is something that interests you, so I'm glad you've found another way to bring it into the channel, and I appreciate your willingness to seek out third parties to provide more information about it. Great work!

[OriginalRaveParty]

I love people who have the passion and knowledge to recreate these kinds of historical buildings, and to keep methods and techniques alive. Brilliant work 👍

[jeannerogers]

I am delighted to see this - I visited Butser Farm in 1982, when the place held a few beautiful thatched round houses and some ancestral breeds of livestock, not to mention enthusiastic staff. It's gratifying to know the Farm is still going, and providing valuable data on living life long ago.

[lechatel]

I live in a medieval timber-framed long-house in Normandy, France. Wattle and daub between the timbers. I can testify to the maintenance issue. Every autumn we have to prepare thoroughly and every spring, about now, we have to inspect the damage and plan a scheme of work. This year we have some woodpecker damage to some of the timbers at the back of the house. lol. Always something wanting to eat it! Funnily enough, walking in the next field I found a perfect polished neolithic axe. So interesting to note that people were living in a timber house nearby. (I wonder if they have the long ago ancestor of our woodpecker (greater spotted) pecking at theirs? And i wonder if they swore at it.

[lrayvick]

I often wonder how my British/European ancestors dealt with those long dark winters. Probably making clothes, tools, kitchen implements, and maybe entertainment stuff like musical instruments. Even gatherning fuel must have been a major chore as development progressed and the forests were cut. I am so proud of those many nameless long forgotten individuals. I am sure their stories would be tremendously entertaining.

[MrOdsplut]

All technology is just advanced bushcraft

[musicandbooklover-po]

The ones that interest me and I would like to see/know more about are the houses at Scarpa Brae up in Scotland. They truly are fascinating, complete with built in furniture and everything.

[jdzencelowcz]

I wanna see a Dr Who ep where an Iron Age family get stuck aboard the TARDIS, & end up in this village, mistaking it for home, & they become squatters, which risks the timeline.

[janenewley]

Thank you…archaeologists who use the words possible, probable, experimental, might etc etc seem all too rare on tv😀😀😀

[brain]

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

[me-l-]

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!

[alanjameson]

I remember seeing information about a small remote island off the west coast of Scotland, completely exposed to the winter storms sweeping in off the North Atlantic. The storms destroy modern houses, but the old homes (or perhaps better "shelters"), made of large stones tipped together with small entrances on the lee sides remain standing to this day. People sheltered inside together with their animals; warmth came from the body heat of the animals, as well as from the "maturation" of their manure-- it wasn't much, but it could make the difference between freezing and not. The wind and weather were too extreme to be able to gather much wood aside from driftwood.

[mejustme]

Why do archeologists seem to believe that our ancestors had never invented a broom?

[Marcus-kien]

Watching this make me think back on your "village" of buildings and how nice they turned out. Thanks for the tour and well done on your own structures.

[tortugalisa]

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🤙