Very many thanks to you both.
I now have the EH contact details & will contact them asap...............and the Vikings thereafter.

Hi
Our group are interested in attending Hastings this year.
Please can someone PM or post information on who we apply to?
Cheers.

Thankyou for the discussion.
Really interesting and something I have had a long interest in - re utensils.

Miss Costello wrote:I'm not a fan of that era of history, but I just thought it was cack.

Crap script. Like 'Merlin' for grown ups, it of eye candy for the ladies. Nah, pass.

Yep. I had hoped for something better. Robin Hood with baguettes.

"Those Terrible Middle Ages!" debunking the myths. Regine Pernoud. Read by my wife - & skimmed by myself. General consensus is that its done by a academic who loves using 20 words when 2 would get the message across. Rather dull & hard work. We gleaned 2 interesting 'facts' - one o...

Have a look at Le Prevo leathers on the web.
I was on their web site looking for something else & got diverted to look at the horse tail hair bundles - sold for rocking horse tails!
Good company & worth talking with - reckon they will find a colour match to suit you.

Hi Dianne,

Not had ours yet. Please can you resend?

Cheers, Andy

PM'd you a response from our Council officer

Thankyou to yourself and all concerned in the organisation.
Just a bit cooler next year please

Marcher Freemen had a really good time - on & off the field.
Big Cheers!
Andy.

I don't know why I didn't mention this before. The 13th cent jug I had made for me was copied from this original.

To me it clearly shows corn dollies

http://education.gtj.org.uk/en/item1/25927

MMMMMMMMMMMM

Clean..almost shiney...............

Cannot better previous comments

In case its of interest..................
There was an ochre paint manufacturer at Parys Mountain on Anglesey in Victorian times.
The relevance of this is that the ochre pits are still open to public access.............if you get my drift.

PM'd you

Thanks - thats really helpful.
I will pm you.
Cheers, Andy

Amend my comment!

Just googled title & got the pdf

http://www.bahs.org.uk/AGHR/ARTICLES/25n2a2.pdf

Thankyou. JStor article very interesting. Just wish I could read the whole thing.

I would suggest that the dollies as we now know them - woven wheat - are very much Victorian. However, the concept of corn sheaves being decorated at harvest end is reputed to go back to Egyptians. On another slant, the methods of weaving done on current dollies is simple and ancient. Bacically the ...

Golden Bough.
Yes, read the publishers notes on the online copy. Agreed,

M. Lambeth describes origins in 'Discovering Corn Dollies' - although precise dates are not given -- as I suppose we would expect. Generally the early dollies are describes as decorted sheaves -- in many countries. Page 5 gives a variety of names. "In France at the time of Henry IV the peasants...

Excellent !!

Many thanks,
Now I know what I look like when 'blue sky gazing'

Sorry, can't remember - it was about 5 Christmases ago
However, really well made - good sound - + snare.
About 20" tall

Cassie got hers from the early Music Shop - made to order

"Sure never lets you down"

Excellent.
Many thanks for the link.

Hinnie Annie has some new data re Roman recurves in the UK.
Not sure if its for general release, so best PM her directly.

Hi, I have just been given this WW1 tourniquet. MOD arrow marked. 1 1/4" cotton webbing. The chromed wind up tensioning device needs to be about 6" from the buckle. Excellent function even it was to become muddy. It came in the tin box. Great piece of kit. Smooth operation & more comfo...

We have always used hemp. It looks and works well. Sisal never. Hempex - to my eye - sometimes has a slight shine, especially when well used & artificial fibres come to the surface. Not yet had an issue with rotting. Only thing is to use spliced eyes tather than knots. Knots become difficult to ...

Marcus Woodhouse wrote:Fez's are cool.

Cuba!
When upsidedown & fullof ice & white wine. Sorry, thinking of an ice bucket.

No more diversions from me

Anybody who wears a Fez ...............................