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Monthly Archives: July 2019

Vikings arrive!

July 22, 2019by richardbrunningswht

The open day with Vikings was a great success with around 600 people attending.

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Saxon, Uncategorized, Viking

Sprucing up

July 22, 2019by richardbrunningswht

A big push was made to tidy up the site for the July open day. The longhall was fitted out with the new furniture and the ceiling in the Roman […]

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Roman, Saxon, Uncategorized, Villa

World’s smallest cinema

July 18, 2019by richardbrunningswht

The World’s smallest cinema will open to the public for one day only on the 21st of July during the Viking day. The Bulleid and Gray cinema will show a […]

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excavation, Prehistory, Uncategorized

How to close a hypocaust flue?

July 9, 2019by richardbrunningswht

We are experimenting with a hypocaust system in our Roman dining room. We have 8 flues which take hot air from under the floor, up the wall and out under […]

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Roman, Uncategorized, Villa

Hardie but no Laurel – how to make Roman tesserae

July 1, 2019by richardbrunningswht

Trials have begun on making tesserae for the mosaic floor in the Roman building. Stone (recycled from a Roman building) and tile are cut into rods by a tile cutter […]

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Roman, Uncategorized, Villa

Pink to white

July 1, 2019by richardbrunningswht

The gable end of the Roman building was smeared pink from the red ochre lines by a tarpaulin was supposedly protecting it from red paint. Now re-limewashed, back to white.

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Roman, Uncategorized, Villa

How many swallows fit in a longhall?

July 1, 2019by richardbrunningswht

Erasmus said that one swallow does not bring a summer, but we had four small ones and two large ones nesting in the longhall and that seems to have done […]

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Saxon, Uncategorized

How to build a Saxon door

July 1, 2019by richardbrunningswht

The third longhall door is complete – a replica of the late Saxon door from Hadstock church in Essex, except with a different hinge pattern taken from a Late Anglo-Saxon […]

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Medieval, Saxon, Uncategorized

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