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Why do people think I am just sitting at home doing nothing? I said from the last couple of replies I am back out here and have been chopping stuff down and asking advice following such action.

Wasn't implying there was one way. I know there were myriad, just wanted to know if it was done in some cases untreated and bashed so I can feel more satisfied they did ok like that if I do! Yes I can picture what you mean with the lashed stick round a log. Think I watched it in a video in the...

Clay again! That which I lack. Though might be able to get enough for a few stake's worth rather than tonnes as suggested for walls. Ready to get building now though so gonna just get on with it without!

Ok, long enough to source more to replace should the occasion arise then! I think I will just debark them and fling them in in that case. I had been thinking I am not sure how I will be able to drive them in as I don't have a ladder to get above to bang them. I will just make a holes I guess...

Ah I have seen a video of that. One of those hd asmr jobbies that are so popular where the guy was chucking the logs on hot coals. I was wondering what he did that for and didn't care to look at the time but I guess that explains it. So, asking you as an archeologist, what would the neolithic...

Another thought that has come to mind. If I just bang the main stakes into the mud how long should I expect them to last? Do people usually put gravel around to slow rot? Back to our neolithic friends. What would they have done? I guess they didn't have postcrete to use. Maybe used gravel...

Well it changed as I learned more but also because people would say this or that would not be possible with what I had. Ideally I would make out of what I have already. I am not that keen on a tarp skinned shelter other than to work in. Doesn't seem to cosy to me. I like the idea of a mud hut...

Yes I am reading up again and while the clay is not in some 'recipes' clay seems to be in them all that I can recall seeing. I don't want some foreign thing I have to bring in, or at least not that would have to make up the majority of the substance of the build. Seems with enough ingenuity I...

A detailed plan thanks. I am more keen on manual tools only however. I am also finding the history aspect of it very interesting too. Reading up on how things used to be done, get ideas, then try with limited hand tools. I think that would be largely lost with power tools. That is only one...

Well exactly my point. I looked into it and seemed like it would demand too much clay than I have to hand. I would sooner be able to make a structure of all wood than clay.

Do you have any picture examples? Oh that reminds me of another idea I had a while ago. Why not just build into the ground to make a bunker? Then the walls and insulation are done for you. I read up on that and some of the prepper/survivalist shelters noted basing designs on old root cellars.

Well the dual support and stack between method seems the simplest I have seen so far. I already know i have clay as there are some considerable deposits where the stream exits the ground. I dug a couple of bucket's worth already while channeling the water. I am not sure how much is required...

Well I did say I didn't want to do the design like that one just showing the example of the stacked walls. I know about he notching technique for big log cabins but since mine aren't that thick I was thinking I could make them with the upright method still. Maybe 6ft high or so. Like this idea...

Ye but it also requires lyme or other such things I don't have on the land doesn't it? I read that as one of the 3 essential parts.

I wrote it in the post, lean-to. This kind of design in terms of how the walls are stacked. Just did a quick search, not seen this round design before but was the first one I saw with the walls I had in mind. I like that because no messing with joints or suchlike. Just stack 'em in! I also...

Ok so update. Today I felled 8 bits of 'roundwood' timber ranging from 5cm to 10cm in thickness. I measured them all to be around 12ft in length in since I have had the general idea of 10ft x 10ft for a structure. No Idea how I should arrange them now though? As I was hauling from the other...

This is the million dollar question asked many times and I have had to answer no idea each time! Great, thanks. Your images give me a much better picture of what I can do. Yes I certainly would have enough to make something with whatever the little trees are that I have. It is just everyone...

Ok would the big ones fallen be rotten through most likely or could there still be good wood there? Of course all depends how long they have been fallen but from my cursory glance they weren't hollowed out, which is what I would take to be long fallen, from what I saw. Might be some propitious...

Ok so I just had a look at the smaller bit of woodland where they are only about wrist thickness and from the leaves all over the ground I am guessing they must also be oak as well as they have the distinctive wavy shape. Are you saying I could split big fallen oaks without chainsaw and just...

I have a few longer willow cuttings from back in summer when trimming back the front edge by the drive which have been out in the garden. Maybe 20 or so about 2m in length. They should be old enough to not grow now right but from what is said above wouldn't matter if they do? Still bendy. A...