Early Middle Ages

Wednesday 16th August 2023
This Open Day will be led by our volunteers and give a chance to see how they have helped to develop our site. There will be heritage skills demonstrations and have a go, site tours, tea and coffee in the longhouse and a storyteller in the Earthouse.

Join me for a relaxing day of painting and learning about the weird and wonderful world of mediaeval manuscripts

Using authentic materials you'll learn how to put quill to parchment and create your own manuscript. The workshop is from 10am to 4pm and will cover the following:

This year, the Open Monuments Weekend is entirely devoted to the Caesar festivities. The festivals that are only organized once every 25 years, in Velzeke! They go back to the origins of Belgium. Historical figures were - literally and figuratively - placed on a pedestal. In 1873 Velzeke unpacks with a suit of armor in honor of Julius Caesar.

The Programme Committee of the International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology welcomes submissions of papers and posters for the ISBSA 17, organized as a collaborative effort of the University L’Orientale of Naples, ISMEO-The International Association for Mediterranean and Oriental Studies and the National Superintendency for the Underwater Cultural Heritage.

Lectures and workshops of the Summer School explore the main core themes:

On Saturday 17th we will do a series of activities at the site:

6 pm - Anthropology Workshop Led by Dra. Antònia Diaz Carvajal (Anthropologist) - Historical recreation Textile production in the Middle Ages Medieval games In charge of the Viking Mediterranean Cultural Group

The International Conference Archaeometallurgy in Europe has been organized every four years since 2003, in Milan (2003), Grado-Aquileia (2007), Bochum (2011), Madrid (2015) and Miskolc (2019). These conferences represent the most important forum for scientific discussion on early metalworking in Europe and other related regions of the Old World.

Get hands-on with one of humanity’s greatest inventions, and experience ancient metalworking with our experimental archaeologist! 

Craft a pair of stunning Celtic rings based on real finds from archaeology!

A unique chance to explore the origins of British language with linguist and Medievalist Harriet Earis.

Discover the sound of our ancestors and craft an ancient instrument used in performance and ritual by Neolithic, Celtic, Viking, and modern peoples.

Learn the most ancient skill there is: how to prepare an animal for the table. Skin, butcher, and cook a deer using traditional Saxon tools and techniques.