I Spent Two Months Building a 10,000 Year Old House - Alone In The Woods

In this episode of the Stone Age Workshop series, I rebuild the oldest known houses in Britain, inspired by the Mesolithic site of Star Carr that dates back over 10,000 years. Using Stone Age tools and natural materials like wood, bracken, bark, clay, roots, and deer hides, I explore how early people built warm, durable shelters at the end of the last Ice Age.

Built over around two months, this house uses fire-cut timber, rawhide and root lashings, a thick bracken roof, bark roof cap, a cob oven, spruce branch flooring and a deer hide door. The result is a shelter that’s warm, dry, and blissfully comfortable.

In upcoming episodes, I’ll be making the tools, equipment, food, and a boat, as I prepare for an attempt to cross the Irish Sea.

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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:32 Digging Foundations
01:41 Timber Frame
06:56 Rawhide Ladder
10:22 Harvesting Roots or Lashings
15:57 Cutting Wood for the Roof
21:48 Custom Tree Mount (Sponsored)
23:46 Bracken Thatch
30:02 Bark Roof Cap
33:19 Cob Oven
38:33 Spruce and Bracken Floor
43:35 Deer Hide Door
48:48 Carved Door Toggles