The thin red line
Spurred on by a chocolate and orange cake of record breaking proportions (thank you Martin and Happy Birthday!) and some sunny weather, progress has been good. Operation fakery continues on […]
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Here be dragons!
Mike’s wonderful dragon head carving was added to the longhall this week and will hopefully fulfill its job of scaring away evil spirits. The head is based on a very […]
Painted beasts
The carved barge boards over the porches are now up. The one with gripping beasts was painted with limewash with a natural caesin glue and yellow and red ochre pigments. […]
The white stuff
Although the walls are gradually filling up with wattle and daub, things are brightening up in the Saxon hall through the application of several coats of lime wash in the […]
All trussed up!
The volunteers have been doing stirling work with the Saxon hall, which has started to gradually turn white. Not snow but the first coat of limewash on the gable end. […]
Avalon Archaeology 'Hands on Heritage' 