Week One at the Yurt

Date(s)
Friday 27th September 2013 (10:00-16:00)
Description

Archaeology are hosting a series of experimental events at the yurt this Friday.

The range of activities will include;

  • dismantling the yurt
  • digging a 3x3m test pit
  • constructing a bread oven
  • making pottery with clay.

Art Historians will also be getting involved to help create a vellum using a deer skin.

A special event entitled 'Bones and the stories they tell' will also take place from 10am - 12pm, where you can handle real bones, look at the casts of fossil ancestors and play guess the age of the piglet.

Yurt