Thirsty Viking boat
As winter approached, the Viking trading ship, ‘The Walrus‘, was looking quite dried out after a long summer. A touch of linseed oil worked wonders. Elsewhere the top floor coat […]
Monthly Archives: October 2019
Starting at floor level
The top coat of the rammed earth floor is being developed in the longhall. Recipe: 2 barrows of sieved clay subsoil, one barrow of sand, 2 buckets of lime, an […]
Carnyx calls
Round the back of an industrial estate, the unlikely strains of an Iron Age carnyx (based on the 1816 finds from Deskford in Scotland) could be heard entertaining passing high […]
Avalon Archaeology 'Hands on Heritage' 