Britain's oldest house found in North Yorkshire

"Carbon dating and analysis of hundreds of scattered flint tools reveal the building stood in 8,500BC, when Britain was still joined to continental Europe. At the time it was thought the country was home to restless, nomadic hunters. But the scale of development at the Star Carr site near Scarborough, combined with other recent finds at Howick in Northumberland and East Barns in Scotland, now suggest a much more cosy, settled picture."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/aug/10/britains-oldest-home