Most impressive was an attempt to recreate a Danish "fishtail dagger" in flint. This involved highly accurate, skilled work in making the piece and equally painstaking analysis of the debitage (the waste flint flakes) and techniques applied in the process. I was happy to play my part by standing on a boulder to add my weight to a primitive vice used to hold the piece still while the knapper worked!
Visitors are invited to participate to a large extent and it was possible to have a go at knapping flint, potting, making textiles, grinding corn to make "bread", chopping wood, fire lighting and paddling a dugout canoe (couldn't resist this).
Me paddling my own canoe. Picture taken by Caroline.
The students dressed in period clothing (including "Raquel Welch, One Million Years BC" style animal skins) were however, to my jaundiced English eye, just a little bit amusing!
Prehistoric, animal skin "bender".
A grisly scene at the sacrificial bog.
A load of aurochs.
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