Through a glass darkly
Hurrah! The windows are in the Roman building (well done Terry and Rod) and the shingles are on the smoke hood roof. The cob walls are being smoothed off. There […]
Monthly Archives: July 2016
The Middelalder Centre
For the last week I’ve been living as a Danish Medieval peasant, back in the year 1406. Welcome to the world that is the Middelalder Centre. Situated overlooking the beautiful […]
Summer frenzy
Despite the oppressive heat of our British summer (last Tuesday if you missed it) work continued on site fuelled by steely determination, a can-do attitude, doughnuts and ice creams (thank […]
Firing up!
A Roman hypocaust has been lit in Somerset for the first time in 1,550 years (give or take a few). The underfloor heating system was fired up a few days […]
A window on the past
The windows for the Roman building have arrived safely, courtesy of our resident glass expert Terry. Sadly the sills were not level enough so have to be tweaked to provide […]
Time to hit the road…
After last week’s divisive result, it was decided that the Hands on Heritage team should strengthen the ties with our Experimental Archaeological comrades across the chanel. I put myself forward […]
Avalon Archaeology 'Hands on Heritage' 