Death of a roundhouse
The third replica Iron Age roundhouse at the Avalon Marshes Centre quietly passed away at the weekend. It had been in poor health for some time and its demise had […]
Category Archives: Experimental Archaeology
The Middelalder Centre
For the last week I’ve been living as a Danish Medieval peasant, back in the year 1406. Welcome to the world that is the Middelalder Centre. Situated overlooking the beautiful […]
Firing up!
A Roman hypocaust has been lit in Somerset for the first time in 1,550 years (give or take a few). The underfloor heating system was fired up a few days […]
Saxon hall takes shape
The Carpenter’s Fellowship have been busy erecting the oak walls of the Saxon longhall. There were several delays with poor ground conditions and the discovery of bits of car and a […]
A Launch into the Unknown
The 18th of March will forever be remembered as the day the boats were launched. With a shout of command and a concerted heave, we shifted the mighty wooden behemoths […]
The Glastonbury Galleon Pt.1.
In the foundations of one of the roundhouses at Glastonbury Lake Village, Arthur Bullied discovered what he described as part of a broken canoe made of beech. Conveniently for us, […]
Sheds, Shacks and Shelters Pt.2
Aided by the glorious sunshine, Rob and Bob have made some pretty substantial progress on the structure over the last couple of weeks. They began by heading out with the Avalon […]
Tinkering with Tar
Thinking about solutions to plug our crack in the canoe, we stumbled upon an idea that had been lurking in the back of our minds for some time now- what […]
Ferrous Fascinations
Due to foul weather in January, the second in our series of workshops on prehistoric metallurgy, was postponed until now. With Spring gagging to break Winter’s grip it was time […]
Paddling through Prehistory Pt. 3
It was all hands to the deck over the last couple of Wednesdays, as work raced on with the canoe. The first task, now the canoe was back the right […]
'Hands on Heritage' in the Avalon Marshes 