Last week was the Oxfordshire Art week which I found out about at the last moment from my next door neighbour, one he mentioned was a Saxon Long house. Well I went along to see it with my son
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This is the Saxon Long House which was built adopting techniques the Saxons would have used
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Nearby is a story board about it
First thing I noticed on the way in was this helmet, nearby was a guy beating out the panels that would be used on something like this. It's a lot simpler that it looks. The helmet here is covered in Brass, under it is steel. It is heavy which I found out after picking it up. Mostly because of the chain mail around it
Nearby was another one of steel
and yet another beautiful one on a table
Along with various swords . The sword in the foreground was lighter than I expected
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A Saxon well he is from the Living History Society . He explained all about the arms, he also played a Anglo-Saxon Lyre
Nearby were various spears and a shield he also told us about
On a table at the back were bowls and drinking horns. I found it a very interesting visit even if I did come home smelling of smoke from the house, the had a huge fire going cooking Saxon food.
Interesting history! I'm always a bit humbled to see European history like this. It make us Yanks feel rather like whippersnappers.
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Thank you for showing me, I love things like that
ReplyDeleteI find this history fascinating especially since a large part of my ancestry is celtic and saxon.
ReplyDeleteWow!! How interesting!!
ReplyDeleteFascinating! This sort of thing I go for.
ReplyDeleteI would have loved to see that in person. Love the photos. Thanks so much!
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That was a very interesting journey. So many wonderful sights to photograph. Love this!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fantastic bit of history! Wow! Thanks for sharing.
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