Stepping out!
Not a stairway to heaven but a heavenly stairway, to the mezzanine level in the Saxon longhall. Steve’s insistence on waney edge planks pays off. More wall panels are filled […]
Category Archives: Medieval
The beginning of the end
Its not the end of the wattle and daubing on the Saxon longhall, but it is perhaps the beginning of the end. The gaps are gradually filling in, but somehow […]
Viking storm!
Last weekend a hoard of pagan Vikings took over the Saxon longhall. And lo there was thunder in the heavens and the sky wept a deluge of tears. Fortunately everyone […]
Is Beckery the earliest British monastery?
A series of seven radiocarbon dates from the monastic cemetery at Beckery near Glastonbury are possibly the earliest archaeological evidence for monasticism in the British Isles. They suggest that the […]
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 […]
Beckery uncovered!
The chapels on Beckery island have been uncovered again for the first time in 50 years. Glastonbury Abbey sources from the 12th century link the chapel to King Arthur, who […]
Donkey Days and Burtle Nights
Wednesday heralded the return of our Hands on Heritage Volunteer group!… And about time too! I think we were all glad to feel the weight of an axe in our […]
The Levels and Moors on Film…
A new film celebrating the heritage of the Somerset Levels and Moors has been selected to be shown at an international film festival in Italy. Produced by Somerset Heritage Service, […]
Furtlin’ at Burtle
Our season of excavation continued at the end of August into September as we headed out to Burtle to investigate the whereabouts of a medieval priory. The rumours started in […]
'Hands on Heritage' in the Avalon Marshes 