Cross beasts
Latest carving in the longhall, based on images on the 8th century Ruthwell Cross in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, a location that was then part of the Kingdom of Northumbria. The animals […]
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Chest enhancement
A beautiful chest has been made based on some of the numerous chest fragments found in the 9th century Oseberg boat burial from Norway. Its made from beech with a […]
Roundhouse and the lion’s paw
The reed thatch on the roundhouse is nearing completion. Rather thicker than they would probably have gone for in the Iron Age, as the whole building would only be expected […]
When is a roundhouse not round?
Work on the Iron Age roundhouse has continued with the walls and roof dome all now sufficiently woven with hazel. The short ridge line, coupled with the porch inset into […]
Roundhouse goes higher
More progress on the roundhouse, weaving the dome of the roof and the roof of the porch.
How to build an Iron Age roundhouse
Work is speeding along with the mark II roundhouse experiment, trying to replicate as far as possible the type of construction used at Glastonbury Lake Village. Coppiced hazel provides the […]
Looming presence
Various projects are on the go at the moment. A replica of the smaller loom from the Oseberg boat burial has just been finished. Opinion differs about how it was […]
3 years work reduced to 6 minutes
For three years the hands on heritage volunteers have devoted Wednesdays to recreating a Roman mosaic floor in our winter dining room reconstruction. It was finally finished this October and […]
Can AI be used to create a Roman Mosaic floor?
In a World first, the magic of artificial intelligence was used to automate the laying of a reconstructed Roman mosaic floor. In the attached video you can see how the […]
How to lay a mosaic?
First make your tesserae -in our case cubes of local stone and tile that were roughly 13mm square when viewed from above. For our room we made 140,000 of five […]
'Hands on Heritage' in the Avalon Marshes 