EH‘s Fifth PDF Update on the Silbury repairs.
Silbury Hill Update 05 (PDF)
Silbury Update Number 5
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Silbury Update no. 4
EH‘s Fourth PDF Update on the Silbury repairs. Silbury Hill Update 04 (PDF)
Silbury Update number 3
EH‘s Third PDF Update on the Silbury repairs. Silbury Hill Update 03 (PDF)
Silbury Update number 2
Part Two in EH‘s PDF Updates on the Silbury repairs. The Visitor’s Centre is now open, and PeteG keeps an up-to-date page on the developments too. Silbury Hill Update 02 (PDF)
Silbury Update number 1
The first instalment of English Heritage’s long-awaited update on the re-opening and long-awaited repair of Silbury. Silbury Hill Update 01 (PDF)
Early man ‘couldn’t stomach milk’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6397001.stm
By early they mean Neolithic. The study taking in skeletons as young as 5000 years ago. Evolution in action!
Stonehenge Primary Care Trust
This is as fascinating as it is disconcerting – embracing the idea that Stonehenge was just a prehistoric Lourdes may take some effort, but why should ancient belief systems and their proponents work differently to those younger ones? The target audience remains the same.
Return of the Green Valley!
Missed most of this, but good to see Ruth, Alex & Fonz back again:
BBC 2, Thursday 21st Dec, 20:00
A Tudor Feast at Christmas Without the use of modern conveniences, a group of historians and archaeologists prepare a Tudor feast as it would have been over 400 years ago. They’ll wear clothes from the period, source food from the land, and use recipes from the era. They’ll be turning the clock back to rediscover a way of life from an age gone by.
[ write-up courtesy of bleb.org ]
Avebury in December
On the way to Wokingham (3 days of app. training), made a slight detour to Avebury. Phil’s first visit, so after a tour of the henge we headed up the West Kennet Avenue in the wind, rain and diminishing light of late afternoon.
At the end, we went over the top of Waden hill for one of the best views of Silbury. This is the first time I’ve seen some water in the moat too, and the Winterbourne was pretty swollen so the bottoms of our waterproofs were pretty ‘brown’ by the time we got back to the car.
Had our evening meal at the Red Lion before getting back on the M4 for Wokingham.
Weekend in the Yurt
Sword casting, the Bronze Age way, in Wiltshire.
Spent last weekend in Neil Burridge’s Yurt at Devizes Museum and Avebury, watching & learning casting and finishing techniques as they would have been practised during the Bronze Age.
The time betweeen building the fire to pouring into the mould led to lots of interesting and informative talk about history, archeological evidence of weapons, development and grave deposits.
On the Sunday, joined Neil again with more archeology students to do some axe casting and some copper smelting, with impressive results.
Now I have the unenviable task of hand finishing the rapier, polishing out the uneven areas of the blade and getting it ready for adding a handle.