Was looking again at the little Anglo-Saxon church of Greensted in Ongar, Essex earlier - thought to be, “...the oldest wooden church in the world, and probably the oldest wooden building in Europe...” The oldest wooden building in the world is thought to be the Horyu-ji Temple in Japan.
However, let’s not be modest, some might quibble as to whether Seahenge is actually a ‘building’ but, with a ringed wall of split logs (not dissimilar to the Greensted walls actually), a ‘door’ and an amazing upturned root at its centre, it’s got to be a contender (at over 4,000 years-old) for the title ‘oldest wooden building in the world’.
Or are there others...
 Reply | with quote | Posted by Littlestone
18th November 2012ce
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