Reconstructing Horton's Neolithic House at Butser

Gareth Chaffey (Wessex Archaeology) and Trevor Creighton (Buster Ancient Farm) talk about the collaborative process of building a Neolithic house at Butser Ancient Farm.
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[@dougmackey448]

Fascinating project! Beautifully produced video, too.

[@VintageHippie78]

Positively phenomenal.

[@RobBoudreau]

Butser's is an amazing place. What's really fascinating to know is not only did it's construction shed light and tell a story, not only it's existence sheds light and tells a story, it's eventual demise will shed light and tell a story. So much has, is, and will yet be learned from the efforts of all the people involved with Butser's. Truly remarkable.

[@mkrmkr3805]

Excellent project, thank you for sharing. 🙏

[@ledacedar6253]

Interesting to see vertical planks from the outer bark; used by the Haida Nation! Culturally modified tree’s from this sustainable harvesting & common all over Haida Gwaii, BC on the northern over a hundred formerly inhabited on these remote islands.

[@layalabi1667]

Brilliant!! Thank you!!

[@katepalmer747]

So inspiring!

[@jeffmeyer9319]

Very nicely done! What's missing, maybe, would be a rain catchment system. That dripline would have shed 1000s of gallons per year.

[@brendapurdy6364]

Hello from Ontario Canada

[@la124]

This is fantastic and so inspiring and interesting. Thank you

[@dawnhilton1513]

Inspiration right there, bet there’s no black mold in it

[@spacelemur7955]

A few thousand years from now, some archeologists will find this and be as confused as hell about the dating evidence.

[@galeocean4182]

I wonder how this compares to how the long houses of native North American's were built? They seem quite similar

[@VerifyTheTruth]

Why Does It Appear To Be Common Practice For Prominent Structures To Be Built Atop Ancient Sites?

[@annazaman9657]

Looking at the amount of work and raw material that was used in building this house, was it a high status dwelling, or was it for ordinary family group?

[@helenamcginty4920]

The secret fun of this type of archaeology is that often no one knows for sure.

[@JETWTF]

The thing about primitive construction is there's a limited amount of possible construction technique's. That narrows down the possible building structure. Neolithic I would expect allot of lean-to's and A frame buildings and no horizontal walls. As for the model house I would have made the end walls lean in just like the side walls. Flat on both ends doesn't much sound like stone age technology. Post holes are still a rectangle but all 4 walls can be leaning into the living space at 45 degrees and are also the roof. The end walls being vertical feel way to modern. Underlying issue, if you can make vertical walls so you can walk upright throughout your living space why the F would you not make all 4 walls vertical? Makes as much sense as gouging out your own eyes because you heard a dog fart.

[@jony4real]

Great insight, thank you for sharing such a good point about Neolithic architecture, but I just want to point out that you're wrong about the dog fart. It does not make as much sense as gouging out your own eyes because you heard a dog fart. Gouging out your own eyes because you heard a dog fart is really weird, and is definitely further down on the list of making sense than building two out of four walls vertical. Not that this matters, I just thought it was very funny.