Fiends, floors and fakery
A busy week. Mike’s superb carving of Grendel’s arm is ready for painting before it takes its rightful place above his carvings of the Beowulf story (Beowulf ripped the arm […]
Monthly Archives: May 2018
The table, the huntress, and the swallows
A slightly calmer week of work saw good progress on the top table for the Saxon longhall and its trestle supports. Its deliberately narrow so that it can be easily […]
Experiments with columns
Our fresco columns were based on an example from a 4th century fresco from Lullington villa. We have been experimenting with variations on the theme. One has had a pleasing […]
Wood and walls
Another busy week, with more fresco work in the Roman building (with Diana, goddess of the hunt), making trestle supports for the top table in the longhall and a new […]
Avalon Archaeology 'Hands on Heritage' 