Sprucing up
A big push was made to tidy up the site for the July open day. The longhall was fitted out with the new furniture and the ceiling in the Roman […]
World’s smallest cinema
The World’s smallest cinema will open to the public for one day only on the 21st of July during the Viking day. The Bulleid and Gray cinema will show a […]
How to close a hypocaust flue?
We are experimenting with a hypocaust system in our Roman dining room. We have 8 flues which take hot air from under the floor, up the wall and out under […]
Hardie but no Laurel – how to make Roman tesserae
Trials have begun on making tesserae for the mosaic floor in the Roman building. Stone (recycled from a Roman building) and tile are cut into rods by a tile cutter […]
Pink to white
The gable end of the Roman building was smeared pink from the red ochre lines by a tarpaulin was supposedly protecting it from red paint. Now re-limewashed, back to white.
How many swallows fit in a longhall?
Erasmus said that one swallow does not bring a summer, but we had four small ones and two large ones nesting in the longhall and that seems to have done […]
How to build a Saxon door
The third longhall door is complete – a replica of the late Saxon door from Hadstock church in Essex, except with a different hinge pattern taken from a Late Anglo-Saxon […]
I keep a knocking but i can’t come in
The third door of the longhall was offered up this week and the line of the hinges marked out for mounting. Meanwhile table trestles were being made and a mass […]
The Walrus has landed
The Walrus was successfully brought down to earth this week when its wheels and sub frame was detached after the successful move. It has now attained its final resting place […]
A hunting we will go
The hunting scene has been finished – a fresco replica of a mosaic design from East Coker villa in Somerset. Very similar scenes are depicted on Roman villas as far […]
'Hands on Heritage' in the Avalon Marshes 