Amazing Thatch Roof House built by hand: Bronze Age 1200BC Inspired Roundhouse

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9 ай бұрын

Here is a Bronze Age primitive house with thatch roof that was inspired by the 1200BC Dunch Hill roundhouse that was excavated by archeologists on the Salisbury Plains, England in 1995. Built with an Alder timber frame and hazel battens. Water reed thatch for the roof, and 8 different styles of wall. From wattle and daub, to "clunch" a chalk mix that sets like concrete. As well as post holes, there was also discovery of pottery shards, flint and most importantly, a bronze pin at the original site. This led people to believe that this was a bronze age discovery. Join us next time as we move into the Iron-Age!
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@TAOutdoors 8 ай бұрын

Watch the next episode in the series and join us as we go into the Iron Age: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eN57rKSGnqullJs.htmlsi=h-8zltf8rAWXy-GD

@jpb3305 9 ай бұрын

Please continue to explore this part of our history. I find it completely fascinating.

@outdoorsbeyondnature1980 9 ай бұрын

History of the ancient neo-Gothic people of Europe.

@Banilla468 9 ай бұрын

“Experimental Archeologist” is probably the coolest job anybody can have.

@shiverarts8284 2 ай бұрын

Lame theoretical job. These people were too backwards for the modern person to understand

@Banilla468 2 ай бұрын

@@shiverarts8284Did you watch the video? There are two people making a living performing this job, standing in a building they reconstructed based on historical evidence, and describing in minute detail why they chose each and every design feature of this building. You might be incorrect about this one, my man. Finding connection between ourselves and different cultures across time and space will never be lame.

@shiverarts8284 2 ай бұрын

@@Banilla468 yeah based on historical modern findings, which they can manipulate to make a rich media story. This is more archeological bs

@shiverarts8284 2 ай бұрын

@@Banilla468 who are you white? Culture vulture more like. These people died along time ago and your still trying to disturb them

@Banilla468 2 ай бұрын

@@shiverarts8284... Do you mean to tell me you don't believe in archeology?

@deangajraj 9 ай бұрын

Just think: our ancestors' simplistic construction methods have been recreated, admired, and discussed centuries later. It's a tribute to their innovation and durability -- ultimately showing us that our current 'modern' society isn't so much about being brighter, but is instead built upon the foundation that ancient master builders set in place. From stone age to bronze age, it's been quite a ride! And yet here we are... still having issues with thatch procurement. How times don't change!

@terfalicious 8 ай бұрын

LOL! Can't blame that on covid!

@onlyClaire 9 ай бұрын

Took my nephew's to this place, they loved it and want to go again.

@DareTear 9 ай бұрын

I’ve been watching you for so long, I’ve gotten into bushcraft cause of you and it’s really helped me cope with my migraines. It’s been a nice escape and I thank you for it, cheers

@TAOutdoors 9 ай бұрын

Glad to have helped!

@piccalillipit9211 9 ай бұрын

Im really pleased for you.

@outdoorsbeyondnature1980 9 ай бұрын

@@TAOutdoorsI have been watching your TA Outdoors shows for a long time. I would like to see more history on your channel. I have gotten into the outdoors, exploring nature and camping thank you for sharing. Has helped me with my anxiety and stress levels.

@OriginalRaveParty 9 ай бұрын

Therese is super knowledgeable and interesting to listen to. Great work 👍

@earldavidson 9 ай бұрын

Personally If i had the opportunity to live in a round house type building for the rest of my life i would without doubt i'd prefer to live this way than a brick and mortor house.Awesome.

@howardchambers9679 9 ай бұрын

Enjoy pooing in a hole in the ground and carting your water from the nearest stream

@BenSou66 9 ай бұрын

More like this please! 👍👍

@MartinJames389 9 ай бұрын

I've spent 3 days living in a much bigger round house in Wales. No central pole was used in there, and I think that's a better design, because the ideal place for the hearth is right in the middle, under the apex of the roof, as explained here. That creates a void of oxygen up there, so you can have a big, roaring fire if you want and the sparks won't set the roof on fire. They just get extinguished as they reach the oxygen void. A few minutes watching this means you stop worrying about it.

@BeingBelligerent 9 ай бұрын

Very cool. Always awesome to learn about how we did things in the past.

@jasonwagner5571 9 ай бұрын

Mike, as a multi-year subscriber, I want to say the following: great video. Please sir don’t take the remaining words negatively. As I’ve encouraged before, what you produce is high quality. But as your popularity has arisen, your video production has both reduced and become less frequent. Prior to your fame;I.E., new home, Land Rover and enough revenue to produce a video maybe once a month, your passion was sky high. Please never forget the time or even the date you decided to leave teaching in Rook. Your passion was high for both education and bushcraft. Yet a day came where you and your lovely wife decided, Youtude full time was the goal. You did it and crushed it. The success and the capital came and the videos and quality reduced. All I ask is is, never forget what got you where you are. Those early vids , that were of high production quality, are what drew a million viewers to your channel. This last vid reminded me of your earlier productions. Please extend our well wishes to your family and father. Cheers from Central California

@theminipigyoutuber3198 9 ай бұрын

Love your vids good work

@jeremiahshine 9 ай бұрын

As a wood stove designer and knowing how simply an efficient functional stove can be built with only clay I'd bet my bottom dollar the "ancients" had systems they adhered to for their stoves...which, being made of clay, would be long gone.

@thomphan9518 9 ай бұрын

Amateur historian by many levels, but I know that when Archaelogists dig, two of the biggest things (size wise) that they look for in a house is the post holes for house support and the hearth. I don’t know why they wouldn’t have a clay oven. Orkney had stone ones you can still visit, so the concept existed. But I would be surprised that they couldn’t find any evidence. I did also ask a archaeologist in my family and a lot of the roofing concepts is pulled from artwork, so the chimney would be evident.

@parkinayers7037 9 ай бұрын

It’s a good day when u post

@ek-nz 9 ай бұрын

Love these videos. There is such crossover between bushcraft and history, it’s part of what makes all this so interesting.

@crmsoldier6568 9 ай бұрын

We all appreciate your skills and dedication, keep it up

@mikebennett6713aceadventures 9 ай бұрын

Amazing as always. Thank you my friend

@piccalillipit9211 9 ай бұрын

*I REALLY WANT TO LIVE IN A ROUDN HOUSE* I have no idea why, I just do.

@njts6862 9 ай бұрын

Same

@piccalillipit9211 9 ай бұрын

@@njts6862 I live in Bulgaria now, and I seriously keep thinking of buying a bit of land and building one.

@shartThief 9 ай бұрын

The celtic urge to live in a short tower

@Hythyr 9 ай бұрын

Me too!!

@sirkai007 9 ай бұрын

Maybe it's just the urge to disconnect from the modern world. I know I don't think I could do it for long term but a week or two certainly.

@BraxxJuventa 9 ай бұрын

Thanks Mike for this very informative video! 😁👍

@pinkladybikermamma3603 9 ай бұрын

WONDERFUL LIVING HISTORY

@elsathal7359 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing ✌️💞🤟

@glorfendell2967 9 ай бұрын

Very interesting! We are going to have to visit this park when we head over in the next couple of years

@sarvenazebrahimi3066 9 ай бұрын

Amazing nature with me ❤

@Tiberiotertio 9 ай бұрын

With epic thatch and on a epic hill made by an epic guy on a epic channel...............everything is so epic

@HenrikLaurell 9 ай бұрын

Really great content, most interesting. More please.

@seedy-waney-bonnie4906 9 ай бұрын

Super cool. Thank you.

@troymadison7082 9 ай бұрын

Amazing! Loved the video.

@beans1557 9 ай бұрын

DUDE THIS IS GORGEOUSSSS

@sparsh415 9 ай бұрын

I thoroughly enjoyed this video (love History). I visited here whilst at school and now i`m 53 I pass Butser Ancient Farm when I deliver from a farm, for a packaging company, 30 seconds down the road. Everytime I pass I look and think about how our ancestors lived. Defo worth a visit if you haven`t been.🙂

@yourgodismean4526 9 ай бұрын

I’ve heard Britain has its issues(I’m in the U.S.) but look at that great program for veterans! We let ours panhandle on the streets

@Liamliamliam264 9 ай бұрын

Me and my dad are a fan of you

@TheSaneHatter 9 ай бұрын

I've actually heard of this site, decades ago during my college archaeology class: it was featured prominently in an insert. This expereiment apparently taught the makers and awful lot about the behavior of then-current livestock and the overall yields of the crops and farming practices of the time . . . which were much higher than they thought.

@richardwatt8845 9 ай бұрын

Thx, that was really interesting, will visit butser.

@jamescanjuggle 9 ай бұрын

id love to travel round the uk and see some of these sights. Theres a few in Ireland but not many. Found one in the Netherlands of all places a full recreation village, was fantastic to see.

@kingrafa3938 9 ай бұрын

That's interesting!

@Section8_704 9 ай бұрын

👍 Great vid Mike

@ArielleViking 9 ай бұрын

Fascinating history and really nice to see these re-creations. 👍

@glyn829 9 ай бұрын

Very interesting that 👌

@bipolarkornbread2821 9 ай бұрын

just saved n lik'd for later!

@freddyoutdoors 9 ай бұрын

Loving this it's very interesting looks cozy inside thanks Mike

@yourgodismean4526 9 ай бұрын

I’d give anything to visit those places. Alas, power wheelchairs don’t manage that terrain very well…

@rialobran 9 ай бұрын

The Middle Bronze Age was a time of change and movement , and in Eastern Mediterranean Europe turmoil. People were moving off the high ground and into the valleys due to climate change. It's quite possible this was a summer grazing camp that the people moved to in early summer for decades. Interesting, as the only Bronze Age walls I see are on Dartmoor, made of stone.

@pyeitme508 9 ай бұрын

Amazing 🤩

@SSRT_JubyDuby8742 9 ай бұрын

Very nice 👏😁 Like deployed 👍

@alaskankare 9 ай бұрын

I had a curious thought. air flow is very important in these types of structures. thus why they have a moisture issue. The roundhouse is really the same form of housing as a teepee, just more permanent. The secret to a teepee is that they have an inner layer of cloth that sits off from the outer wall. the outer wall does not reach the ground. the inner cloth is if i recall about chest or head height. thus air flow comes in but is directed upwards by the inner wall, and out thru the opening at the top. What if they did the same in the roundhouse? gap in walls, inner circle of linen or wool? Tapestries are old and long known for hanging on castle walls. But the sewing skill is old. Why wouldnt tapestries in castles be a carry over from roundhouses? Maybe the roundhouse was decorated with walls of tapstries that sat off the outer wall, strung/hung from rafters to direct airflow upwards, but yet, held the sewn stories for all to view? ❤

@Masked_One_1316 9 ай бұрын

1:45 technically they're called sherd, shard is glass (silica or obsidian) sherd is pottery.

@michaelernst3731 9 ай бұрын

I LOVE this history, I ALWAYS wonder " WHO " was the First person to TRY that Mushroom or Berry. did his friends hold him down and force it in his mouth or was it a dare...like Frat Boys at Uni. ???

@Slikx666 9 ай бұрын

It's a shame that in thousands of years they won't be looking at the remains of a pallet wood cabin. It would probably confuse them anyway. 😆👍

@campal6421 4 ай бұрын

Why not have the top point open for smoke ventilation? Or even a top cap with a ring vent just under the top point?

@noofynumbskull 9 ай бұрын

Lucky about 15min drive from home

@howardchambers9679 9 ай бұрын

One thing I've often wondered and is never mentioned, was meat suspended from the rafters for storage and preservation? It makes sense to me that they would have done this if only to keep vermin and dogs away from it and in the process discovered that the smoke was preserving and altering the flavour of the meat. Thoughts anyone?

@ellaisplotting 9 ай бұрын

That's an interesting thought!

@KAZSANable 9 ай бұрын

❤

@MrJeep75 9 ай бұрын

Could have campout there

@jamiewebb6486 8 ай бұрын

originally the walls would have been around 6 to 7 ft tall and the roof much steeper. .. probably wondering how i would know this??

@KarlRoyale 9 ай бұрын

What does it tell you that we suddenly have a very hard time finding material for "thatch"?

@readhistory2023 9 ай бұрын

I wonder if they had lofts in the long houses? They could have used it to dry things or sleep in during the winter since it would be hotter than lower down in the structure.

@jamesellsworth9673 9 ай бұрын

Lofts would have been smokey.

@readhistory2023 9 ай бұрын

@@jamesellsworth9673 That's great if you're drying meats and burning the right wood.

@finbarscanlonwolf 9 ай бұрын

So Mike, what type of house are you going to build in your woodland? I bet your brain was doing overtime whilst you were doing this video. 👍🇮🇪

@scottclark5334 9 ай бұрын

Hey guys i seen you guys made one of these 3 years ago i just wanted to ask if i could pay you guys to teach me or just build one for me 😂 thanks

@njts6862 9 ай бұрын

POGGERS

@halfpinthero912 9 ай бұрын

so explain Brochs.

@canajian 9 ай бұрын

👋😎👍

@seankirk333 9 ай бұрын

Sure I'm in de ja vue here,.?

@Highlandboy.28 9 ай бұрын

😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

@user-mx5qy1hw3b 9 ай бұрын

5th (also good vid)

@allisond4737 9 ай бұрын

If there was no evidence of a hearth, could the round house have been used for animal safety at night?

@TheoddLedgend 9 ай бұрын

Peter Griffin: roundhouse?

@nahkohese555 9 ай бұрын

Here's something to make you say Hmmm . . . I'm an Historical Reenactor, specifically the North American Fur Trade Era and I own an authentic (reproduction) Cheyenne style Tipi. The similarities between the structure of a tipi and this Round House are amazing - including the footprint being more egg-shaped than round. So, just a coincidence due to "common sense construction"? Or were "World Travelers" more prevalent in pre-historic times than we have always believed? (I'll leave any otherworldly theories up to the guy with the weird hair on the History Channel).

@Xhopp3r 9 ай бұрын

Lol. There is no evidence for this in archeology so we made it up, because you know, science.

@greathornedowl1783 4 ай бұрын

Interesting how there was a transition from longhouses to round houses from the stone age to the bronze age. Almost seems like a technological downgrade. Was it from migrants from mainland Europe that caused the transition?

@outdoorsbeyondnature1980 9 ай бұрын

My mom's ancestry is neo-gothic, the (English, Danish, Spanish Kingdoms) colonized this land and enslaved the people. Europe was destroyed by the kingdom's all because of greed and they did the same in the new land in South, Central and North America. The indigenous, people will fight for the land and destroyed the kingdoms of Europe.