Shutter up!
Back to a bit of woodworking with shutter making for the Saxon hall this week. Hopefully they will be open most of the time in the finished building to make […]
Monthly Archives: March 2016
Art week
Last week turned into an impromptu art festival, on show and tell lines, where people brought in their homework for public acclaim. Mary had a very nicely carved window shutter latch […]
Saxon hearth dance
Ancient Saxons built raised wooden hearths inside their longhouses. Legend has it that before the final layer was laid inside the frame, a special ‘hearth dance’ had to be performed […]
Tegulae and imbreces
The lovely Roman tiles are going up on the building and have already withstood several gales. Tegulae are the flat ones and imbreces are the curved ones. A clever system […]
Avalon Archaeology 'Hands on Heritage' 