In the first centuries of Moscow, nearly all its buildings - houses and churches, granaries and town fortifications - were made of wood. In the cultural layer of the Borovitsky Hill there have been found many instruments for working with wood - axes, chisels, knives, rasps, etc. Among the remnants of wooden houses there should be particularly noticed a large house made of pinewood logs. The basic part of this house of the XIIIth century were blown down, only its bottom has survived. Even spades were initially made of wood, and birch bark was used for braiding household utensils, e.g. jugs and pots for dry provision and liquid food (groats, flour, milk, etc.) Even when cracking, such a vessel did not fragment thanks to the braid of birch bark.
