The oldest house in Britain discovered 11,500 years old

Home for so long that when it was built Britain was still part of the European continent.
Circular structure near Scarborough, North Yorkshire, which dates back to the stone age 8500 years BC, was discovered next to an ancient lake.
House is older than the oldest house in Britain believed, Howick, Northumberland, by at least 500 years.
The team said they dug a large wooden platform in wood that has been split and hewn. It is considered the first evidence of carpentry in Europe.
Dr Chantal Conneller and Barry Taylor of the University of Manchester working with Dr Nicky Milner from the University of York Star Carr since 2004.


The house was searched by the team two years ago.
According to archaeologists, the site was inhabited by hunter-gatherers, just after the last glacial period, between 200 and 500 years.
They migrated to the area now under the North Sea, hunting animals including deer, wild boar, elk and enormous wild cattle known as aurochs.
Although they do not cultivate the land, people have burned part of the landscape to encourage animals to eat shoots and they also kept domesticated dogs.
Dr Milner said: "This is a sensational discovery and tells us so much about the people who live in this moment in this research, we will get a clear picture of how these people lived, for example, it seems that could house rebuilt .. on different levels. It is also likely that there are more houses and many people have lived here.
"The platform consists of logging division, the first evidence of this type of carpentry in Europe and wooden objects, especially wooden caps are interesting because they suggest ritual activities."
Dr. Conneller said: "This changes our ideas of life of the early settlers to return to Britain after the end of the last glacial period, it seems that they moved around a lot and left little evidence Now we know they built together .. Structure and very attached to particular places in the landscape.
Mr Taylor added: "The ancient lake is a very important archaeological landscape many miles around inexperienced eye, the region seems to be trivial - just a series of small increases in the landscape ..
"But by using special techniques I have been able to reconstruct the landscape as it was then. Preserving Landscapes peat has many treasures, including pedalos, arrowheads and red deer skull tops which were worn as masks.
"But the dry peat, so it's a race against time to resume archaeological work before the collapse."
David Willetts, universities and science minister, said: "This exciting discovery marry world-class research with the lives of our ancestors.
"It highlights the similarities and differences between ancient and modern life in an exciting way and will change our perceptions forever I congratulate the research team and we look forward to their future discoveries.
The study was made possible by a grant from the Natural Environment Research Council, the British Academy funding for the excavation and English Heritage, which is web programming as a national monument.
Vale Pickering Research Trust has also supported the excavation.
The famous Star Carr site, which dates back to 9000 BC, was discovered by a local man John Moore in 1947 after falling out of a flint knife and began to dig in artifacts.
He found several other important sites in the region before the research was conducted between 1949-1951 and 1985-1989. Conneller Dr. Milner and Dr. Taylor has resumed excavations in 2004.