Illuminating the past
As light relief, 8 volunteers made replica Roman oil lamps at the Brick and Tile Museum with John French. Once they have been fired, they will be used to light […]
Category Archives: Villa
Dragons, art and turning yellow
Some rather intricate carving work is going on to decorate the interior of the Saxon hall, with a design taken from Saxon stonework from Somerset. The Roman building is turning […]
Harling
The first harling coat has started on the cob walls inside the Roman building. Eventually lime plaster will go on top to brighten the interior.
(Romano)British thin red line
The thin red line around the Roman building has finally come to an end, and looks mighty fine too. Traditional Roman fakery to make a building look posher than it […]
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. […]
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 nor 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 […]
