Ready for the public
The site has been made to look pretty for the first week of public tours. Steve’s palisade gate featured on the Gate Appreciation Society facebook page, the back room of […]
Tag Archives: saxon door
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 […]
How to rivet a Saxon door
The third door for the longhall nears completion. It is based on a late Saxon door from Hadstock church in Essex. The halved roundwood frame is secured to the 1″ […]
Riveting times
Lots of different bits of work went on this week. Clearing the site ready for a new mystery delivery, filling gaps in the wattle and daub where it had shrunk, […]
Steam and hinge success for doors
The latest steam bending experiment worked very well – steaming a piece of cherry in a pipe and using an array of clamps to hold it in shape in a […]
How to steam a door frame
This week some experimental wood steaming took place, using a Viking method for steaming ship planks. We were trying to form part of a curving door frame to replicate the […]
Avalon Archaeology 'Hands on Heritage' 