The Steinzeit Park
The finale on this tour was in Albersdorf, Northern Germany where I was to find some familiar faces hanging out in leather and skins, pottering about a beautiful Mesolithic encampment […]
Visiting the Vikings
This week I have mostly been quaffing mead and growing my beard… Oh and visiting some of Denmark’s finest historical institutions, representing that wonderful period of time characterised by piracy […]
The Land of Legends
This week, I’ve been mostly living as a Stone Age Hunter-Gatherer. Well… maybe just a gatherer. Every year primitive technology specialists, archaeologists, flint knappers and…me, head to Lejre to take […]
Through a glass darkly
Hurrah! The windows are in the Roman building (well done Terry and Rod) and the shingles are on the smoke hood roof. The cob walls are being smoothed off. There […]
The Middelalder Centre
For the last week I’ve been living as a Danish Medieval peasant, back in the year 1406. Welcome to the world that is the Middelalder Centre. Situated overlooking the beautiful […]
Summer frenzy
Despite the oppressive heat of our British summer (last Tuesday if you missed it) work continued on site fuelled by steely determination, a can-do attitude, doughnuts and ice creams (thank […]
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 […]
A window on the past
The windows for the Roman building have arrived safely, courtesy of our resident glass expert Terry. Sadly the sills were not level enough so have to be tweaked to provide […]
Time to hit the road…
After last week’s divisive result, it was decided that the Hands on Heritage team should strengthen the ties with our Experimental Archaeological comrades across the chanel. I put myself forward […]
Flues, valleys, glass and Viking invasion
Exciting times on the archaeological building site. On the Roman building the scaffolding is down and the hypocaust flues are going in the walls. On the Saxon longhall shingles are […]
'Hands on Heritage' in the Avalon Marshes 