Iron Age bread week
This week we had fun making different breads in the longhall and the new Iron Age oven in the roundhouse. Lee’s naan bread cooked very well on a skillet over […]
Category Archives: Roundhouse
Painted roundhouse
We have had another day of making paint using milk curds (with a touch of lime) as the binding agent and earth colours for the pigment (ochres and chalk). As […]
How to make an Iron Age oven
An oven is being made in the roundhouse based on the ones discovered at Glastonbury Lake Village. It is 2 feet (61cm) in diameter internally with walls 4 inches (10cm) […]
More experiments with clay
The daub walls of the roundhouse had several small cracks. In a 2m stretch, the cracks were filled with clay subsoil and smoothed over, creating a more visually appealing surface […]
The joy of painting daub
The daubing of the roundhouse wall has now been completed and we have been lucky enough to have had two days of workshops led by the wonderful folk from Pario […]
The joy of daub
We are now using a different subsoil mix for the roundhouse daub. A bit sandier in composition, making it a lot easier to mix and apply than the previous clay […]
Roundhouse and the lion’s paw
The reed thatch on the roundhouse is nearing completion. Rather thicker than they would probably have gone for in the Iron Age, as the whole building would only be expected […]
When is a roundhouse not round?
Work on the Iron Age roundhouse has continued with the walls and roof dome all now sufficiently woven with hazel. The short ridge line, coupled with the porch inset into […]
Roundhouse goes higher
More progress on the roundhouse, weaving the dome of the roof and the roof of the porch.
How to build an Iron Age roundhouse
Work is speeding along with the mark II roundhouse experiment, trying to replicate as far as possible the type of construction used at Glastonbury Lake Village. Coppiced hazel provides the […]
'Hands on Heritage' in the Avalon Marshes 