Building a Saxon House with Hand Tools: A Bushcraft Project (PART 1)

We build a bushcraft saxon house (pit house) with hand tools only. Part 1 focuses on building woodworking stations and digging the pit foundations for the anglo saxon house. The pit house is also known as Grubenhaus across Europe and Germany. With our previous bushcraft viking house project, we started building the viking camp first, without building work stations. Now we take our time and begin with building a woodland workshop. First we choose a site for the foundations of our saxon house. There was a lar