Borders in the news
Borders have quite rightly been in the news this week, as 4m of blue border mosaic was laid in just one short day. That’s about a quarter of what is […]
Category Archives: Saxon
The skills of volunteers
Another impressive day of work by the Hands on Heritage volunteers, with woodworking, mural painting and mosaic laying. All powered purely by cake (thank you Martin) and good fellowship.
Striding towards the sunlit uplands!
Progress on lots of fronts this week. Mosaic laying marches on in the Roman building, the Viking bed takes shape, the frames for the mural in the Saxon longhall are […]
Getting plastered!
Another busy week with a final plaster skim being added in the longhall for the mural (Alfred vs the Vikings), which is beginning to be sketched out, based on the […]
Stone the Porch
The stone tile roofing of the porch of the Roman building has finally been completed and looks fabulous. Its made from two different shades of limestone (blue and cream colour) […]
Angry birds
Work continues on various projects including a bed, based on one from the Oseberg ship burial, and the stone roofing for the porch of the Roman building. Meanwhile Mike has […]
Deck the halls…
For the site tours at the weekend the longhall was cleared out and the ‘Saxon’ furniture was placed inside. Keen followers of the blog may remember that two of the […]
Intense intents work
Despite the searing heat, volunteer work continued as an undercover operation this week, with work on mosaic experiments, timber preparation for a Viking bed, recutting of the large rotary quern […]
Dragons and the moon
Its a little known fact, that as the moon passes through the sky, the beasts on the longhall roof stretch out to meet it. Its all to do with the […]
Clearout!
Since the return from lockdown we have undertaken a big clearout of the longhall, a reclean of all the furniture and the wooden dias and a fresh coat of linseed […]
Avalon Marshes 'Hands on Heritage' 