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Houses and Furniture
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Tents as the Anglo-Saxons saw them
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Tents as the Anglo-Saxons saw them
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Tents as the Anglo-Saxons saw them
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Tents as the Anglo-Saxons saw them
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Tents as the Anglo-Saxons saw them
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Tents as the Anglo-Saxons saw them
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Various types and methods of cladding and infill of Anglo-Saxon wooden buildings By Ben Levick 1993.
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The 'sunken featured building' clad and thatched. By Ben Levick 1993.
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The frames and floor in the sunken featured building By Ben Levick 1993.
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A cross-section through a house with a void beneath the floor, known as a 'sunken featured building' By Ben Levick 1993.
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The same building as Hall02.gif now clad and roofed with thatch By Ben Levick 1993.
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A three-quarter view through an idealised Saxon home built using simple frame construction. By Ben Levick 1993.
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A typical cross-section through a standard Saxon house. By Ben Levick 1993.
Glass and Amber Working
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Early Viking glass drinking vessels were largely conical, and about 120mm or 5 inches high, developing into the bag-beaker style later on.
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A graphic of some of the more common bead styles
Fishing
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A typical eel spear. Notice the many-barbed side to perfect a grip upon those slimy little beasties
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Fishing spears from the Castle Gardens Museum, York
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A typical cross-section of a fish trap
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Long-netting. The net angles in the direction of the incoming tide. When the tide withdraws fish are captured in the net
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A finished fishing net
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The clove hitch
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The sheetbend
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Suggested arrangement of terminal trace using bored stone, nettle-hemp line and barbed iron hook
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Methods of long-lining, both from shore and from small fishing vessels
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Open-eye and spade-ended hooks from the 10th century from the British Museum
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Fishy man
Bronze Working
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The main basic stages of casting using the Lost wax method. By Colin Levick.
Braid Weaving
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Tablet Weaving in the process of being woven
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A graphic of gold brocaded tablet weave from Birka in Sweden
Bone and Antler Working
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Whalebone plaque, used with a glass smoother, to 'iron' crease or indeed polish linen. By Ben Levick.
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Viking age gaming pieces made of bone and antler. By Ben Levick.
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The idealised stages in making an antler comb. By Ben Levick.
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Typical Viking age bone cloak pin and bone handled knife. By Ben Levick
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Viking age bone buckle found at York. By Ben Levick
Archery in Anglo-Saxon England
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A Norman archer receives his instructions. By Roland Williamson.
To Be Christian, Or Not To Be Christian
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Ink
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Cutting a Quill
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Cutting a quill: To "nib" the pen, rest the underside of the point on a smooth, hard surface. Thin the tip from the top side by 'scraping' the blade forward at a shallow angle; then make a vertical cut, either at right angles to the slit or obliquely....
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Cutting a quill: If the underside of the nib is too concave, scrape it flat with a clean scooping cut, removing as little quill as possible.
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Cutting a quill: Shape the nib on the opposite side, making sure the two halves match.
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Cutting a quill: Shape the nib on one side of the slit.