At last the replica of the Oseberg tablet weaving loom has been completed and is ready to join our IKEA Viking bedroom in the longhall taking its place alongside the bed and chair that are also based on finds from the wonderful Oseberg boat burial in Norway (wrong country but right date for our hall). Its been worked on intermitently by five different people, made mainly from ash but with feet of oak. Elsewhere on site, work continued on the roundhouse in anticipation of water reed arriving in February for the roof and the new guilloche mosaic border lengthens in the Roman building. From the lands of the north, where the black rocks stand guard against the cold sea, where the dark night is very long and the people sit by their great log fires, wool from the sturdy weatherblown sheep has been gathered and spun and sent south to the lands of the summer people for their looms.