The Viking Building at Cranborne |
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Volunteers, students and staff have embarked on an ambitious project to build a working reconstruction of a Viking longhouse at The Ancient Technology Centre in Dorset. Following in the footsteps of other timber framing projects at the centre, the intention is to complete the build by Christmas 2008. This project seeks to combine financial support from private and public donors with a volunteer and student workforce to produce a unique residential facility for schools and other educational groups. |
January |
The mission for this month is to fit the curved wall plate to the top of the posts. Firstly we surveyed the tops of posts to discover they were inch perfect! The posts were levelled with chainsaws, using a water level to establish a datum. Using a site made jig we then notched the posts to receive the 5”x5” wall plates – the fantastic shape of the building can be seen in the curve of these plates. We have embarked on the manufacture of hundreds of oak pegs for the timber joints. |
 Emily preparing recycled posts to make pegs |
 More peg prep |
 Dave and Jim surveying ready for wall plates |
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January
 More surveying... |
 Jim tackling the hard part - keeping the staff level |
 Luke on the theodolite |
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 Lots of peg making |
 Jim making pegs |
 Peg making.... |
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 and more peg making |
 Emily checking up on Luke |
 The A-Team. Yes that's A for adzing |
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 No stopping on the adze work |
 Look at those curves mmmm |
 On the count of three... |
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 Go Ralph... |
 A bit more thataway |
 ITS UP!! |
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 Morticing |
 Look at those curves [2] mmmm |
 Look at those curves [3]mmmm |
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Some wizardry from Simon - move your mouse over the picture, click and move around holding the LH mouse button. Be amazed, be very amazed. Check out December and Volunteers too... |