
Spoon Augers
Well first, let’s make it clear what an auger isn’t. It’s all down to the critical vowel. In ancient Rome, we know of course that an augur was a religious…
A Registered Charity 1175475 reconstructing the Sutton Hoo Ship
Well first, let’s make it clear what an auger isn’t. It’s all down to the critical vowel. In ancient Rome, we know of course that an augur was a religious…
There is always a slight mix of both excitement and apprehension when I am asked to forge a new style of axe, so when David Pryor, of the ship’s company,…
The Anglo Saxon ship that was buried at Sutton Hoo was of course made out of wood, a widely available, buoyant, and relatively easily worked substance that was the material…
We were introduced to working with a Holly Mallet by Damian Goodburn some time ago and have been using them ever since. A holly mallet is made from the natural…
This is the first experiment in carving Anglo-Saxon artwork in green oak, as potential decoration for our reconstruction of the Sutton Hoo Ship. Known as Style II, or specifically, late…