Vikings, peasants, wattle and guilloche
Between the site tours, work continues by the volunteers every week, adding more details to the site. Vikings and peasants have arrived on the mural in the longhall, fresh wattlework […]
Category Archives: Roman
Ready for the public
The site has been made to look pretty for the first week of public tours. Steve’s palisade gate featured on the Gate Appreciation Society facebook page, the back room of […]
A busy week
A busy week with the volunteers, with the dias floorboards relaid in the longhall, its gable end given a much needed new coat of limewash (with yellow ochre) and the […]
Cold comfort firm
Despite the freezing fog we had another busy week with flooring repairs, palisade stakes going on the main gate, beastly leg carving (refering to the subject matter not the quality), […]
New Year flurry
2023 began with a flurry of activity on site with the removal of the older hazel wattlework from the roundhouse porch and the lifting of the dias flooring in the […]
Incremental change
A reminder of what has been done with the Roman mosaic so far.
Creeping onwards
Can you have too many mosaic development pics? I am beginning to think so, buit i am giving you some more anyway. Also one of the finished Roman table legs […]
Developing mosaic corner
Battling autumn
The annual battle with autumn kicked off last week with the clearance of leaves from the Walrus (our replica of the Skuldelev 3 Viking cargo ship). Elsewhere the roof of […]
Progress towards the sunlit uplands
Another week of progress, with the Welcome Hut, the mosaic floor, various carvings and the mural in the longhall. Another of the 8 panels was completed in the latter, showing […]
'Hands on Heritage' in the Avalon Marshes 