The thin red line
Spurred on by a chocolate and orange cake of record breaking proportions (thank you Martin and Happy Birthday!) and some sunny weather, progress has been good. Operation fakery continues on […]
Category Archives: Roman
Here be dragons!
Mike’s wonderful dragon head carving was added to the longhall this week and will hopefully fulfill its job of scaring away evil spirits. The head is based on a very […]
Painted beasts
The carved barge boards over the porches are now up. The one with gripping beasts was painted with limewash with a natural caesin glue and yellow and red ochre pigments. […]
How to disguise a wall
On one side of the Roman building a traditional Roman deception has been carried out. The wet lime render has been scored to make it resemble a face of finely […]
Doorway to the past
After much experimentation Steve and Marc perfect their method of easily removed pivoting doors, with no need for hinges. Well worth the wait. Meanwhile subsoil arrives for the daubing of […]
Harling not hurling
In the last few weeks we have been getting plastered on a regular basis. To make the cob walls of the Roman building more waterproof we have been adding several […]
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 […]
Tegulae and imbreces
The lovely Roman tiles are going up on the building and have already withstood several gales. Tegulae are the flat ones and imbreces are the curved ones. A clever system […]
wattle, sprocket and daub
Wattle Sprocket and Daub are of course a well know firm of solicitors, but they are also what has been going on recently at Hands on Heritage. The roof and […]
Topping out!
The Carpenter’s Fellowship have done a great job of putting the main roof timbers on the Roman and Saxon buildings. The smoke hood of the Saxon hall was topped out […]
'Hands on Heritage' in the Avalon Marshes 