The 11,500 Year Old House
Just to the left of centre of this picture, on the slight rise in the field, is the site of the most ancient house yet found in Britain and the oldest evidence of carpentry in Europe. This is the Star Carr House site, in Flixton near Scarborough.
11,500 years ago there was a lakeshore to the right of it inhabiting that slight dip, where a fishing platform had been fashioned from wood. The house would've looked like this:
I had quite a time finding this place, as the dig has been covered back up for the winter. I asked the locals at a nearby pub, and most of them had never even heard of it. Ahh, Little England. If this was America there'd be a bouncy castle, a Ferris wheel, and someone charging admission.
11,500 years ago there was a lakeshore to the right of it inhabiting that slight dip, where a fishing platform had been fashioned from wood. The house would've looked like this:
I had quite a time finding this place, as the dig has been covered back up for the winter. I asked the locals at a nearby pub, and most of them had never even heard of it. Ahh, Little England. If this was America there'd be a bouncy castle, a Ferris wheel, and someone charging admission.
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