The carved barge boards over the porches are now up. The one with gripping beasts was painted with limewash with a natural caesin glue and yellow and red ochre pigments. The othe rcarvings of the duck/hippo/goat/playtpus (other interpretations are available) creatures were left in natural wood.

Elsewhere on site the long walls of the Roman building had their first coat of limewash, as did some of the wattle and daub panels in the Saxon longhall. The intention is that the latter will have a yellow ochre colour.

Coloured beats and head over porch

duck-goat-hippo creature in natural colour

Painted beasties over the porch

Limewash on Saxon wall. Photo Rod Little

beams for the mezzanine in situ

limewash coat on plain rendered wall of Roman building with ‘window’ showing cob underneath

coat of limewash drying on the Roman building with fake stonework scratched in the plaster