Iron Age bread week
This week we had fun making different breads in the longhall and the new Iron Age oven in the roundhouse. Lee’s naan bread cooked very well on a skillet over […]
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Painted roundhouse
We have had another day of making paint using milk curds (with a touch of lime) as the binding agent and earth colours for the pigment (ochres and chalk). As […]
Viking design
We have been adding to our collection of Viking house and home replicas with an interesting roped box made by Kath. The rope acts as both a handle or carrying […]
How to make an Iron Age oven
An oven is being made in the roundhouse based on the ones discovered at Glastonbury Lake Village. It is 2 feet (61cm) in diameter internally with walls 4 inches (10cm) […]
How to make Viking bags and bowls
We are gradually adding more small items to the longhall. The latest ones include a shuttle from Viking Dublin with pairs of horse heads at either end, a bowl decorated […]
Mast raising
This week the mast on the Viking ship was finally raised on Wednesday. It makes the ship seem larger and gives a better impression of what the Skudelev 3 ship […]
Gladiator fanzone
The back wall of the Roman building was subject to some vandalism by fans returning from the recent gladiatorial games at the amphitheatre at Charterhouse. As you can see from […]
More experiments with clay
The daub walls of the roundhouse had several small cracks. In a 2m stretch, the cracks were filled with clay subsoil and smoothed over, creating a more visually appealing surface […]
The joy of painting daub
The daubing of the roundhouse wall has now been completed and we have been lucky enough to have had two days of workshops led by the wonderful folk from Pario […]
The joy of daub
We are now using a different subsoil mix for the roundhouse daub. A bit sandier in composition, making it a lot easier to mix and apply than the previous clay […]
'Hands on Heritage' in the Avalon Marshes 