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Category Archives: Roundhouse

Vikings, peasants, wattle and guilloche

March 3, 2023by richardbrunningswht 1 Comment

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 […]

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Roman, Roundhouse, Saxon, Villa

Coppicing for roundhouse

December 20, 2022by richardbrunningswht

Pre Christmas activity included a trip to the lovely woods at Shipham, managed by the Somerset Wildlife Trust. SWT’s Chris Eyles was kindly helping us to gather coppice material to […]

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Roundhouse, Uncategorized

Roundhouse renewal

April 12, 2022by richardbrunningswht 2 Comments

Work has started on the renewal of the roundhouse after the destruction of the partly built mark1 version in the winter storms. The use of relatively small willow posts for […]

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Roundhouse, Saxon

Now you see it, now you don’t

February 28, 2022by richardbrunningswht 2 Comments

There once was a partly built replica Iron Age roundhouse. Then there was a storm, or two, and the roundhouse vanished, leaving just a doorway to nowhere (which is also […]

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Prehistory, Roundhouse, Uncategorized

Vandals storm to attack

February 22, 2022by richardbrunningswht 3 Comments

The Avalon Archaeology Park has suffered a dreadful attack by two vandals who can only be named as Eunice and Franklin, due to their young age (a few days old). […]

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Roundhouse

Viking lockdown

April 2, 2020by richardbrunningswht 3 Comments

Due to fears of an imminent attack by the fierce Viking leader Covid and his 19 beserkers, the longhall has gone into a state of ‘Saxon lockdown’, with shutters barricaded […]

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Roundhouse, Saxon, Uncategorized

Roundhouse going higher

February 7, 2020by richardbrunningswht

Work on the new roundhouse continues upwards with no break between the wall and the roof in this experimental design. Getting the angle right for the roof (55 degrees) is […]

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Prehistory, Roundhouse, Uncategorized

Higher and higher

January 28, 2020by richardbrunningswht

The roundhouse wall is nearing completion. Next will be some experimentation with novel ways of thatching with reed.

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Roundhouse, Uncategorized

Roundhouse remodelled

January 21, 2020by richardbrunningswht 1 Comment

After the Christmas break some changes were made to the roundhouse design, including a new doorway structure. The previous wattling was whipped off and a new version erected. We are […]

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Prehistory, Roundhouse

Christmas celebration

December 19, 2019by richardbrunningswht

Many thanks to everyone who turned out for the Xmas do for 2019. We just managed to fit in the longhall. Lots of things have been achieved over the last […]

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Roundhouse, Saxon, Uncategorized

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