{"id":9024,"date":"2018-08-20T09:19:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T09:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/?p=9024"},"modified":"2023-07-03T09:56:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T09:56:51","slug":"anglo-saxon-treewrighting-course-day-2-13oct2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/anglo-saxon-treewrighting-course-day-2-13oct2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglo-Saxon Treewrighting course (Day 2) 13Oct2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>13th October 2018 (Day 2)<\/h1>\n<p><strong>As part of the exciting <em>House of Wessex<\/em> project we are running three consecutive one-day treewrighting courses with tutors from the Carpenters&#8217; Fellowship. Places are available for one, two, or three days. During the courses, samples will be made of the key building components for a major historical reconstruction taking place in 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9020\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9020\" class=\"wp-image-9020\" src=\"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wessex_timber-web.jpg\" alt=\"House of Wessex timber frame\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9020\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">House of Wessex timber frame<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Learning will include a selection of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Timber conversion<\/strong> &#8211; cleaving and hewing timbers into shape for posts and plates (no saws were used in this period)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Foundations <\/strong>&#8211; earthfast anchoring of the posts<\/li>\n<li><strong>Axe carpentry<\/strong> &#8211; The shaping of stubby tusk tenons and through-mortises, grooving boards, fashioning halvings and lap joints<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fixings <\/strong>&#8211; Shaping the characteristic Saxon \u201ctreenails\u201d, a peg with an enlarged head, often wedged internally<\/li>\n<li><strong>Walls and roof <\/strong>&#8211; creating wattle panels and hurdles, for the walls and the roof underthatch respectively<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Full training will be provided (no prior experience necessary). Although you will be working undercover, the course will be &#8216;outdoors&#8217;, so you will need to wear appropriate clothing. Drinks and food will be provided. Overnight camping (bring your own tent) is available on the site. More details will follow your booking.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9016\" src=\"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/carpenters-fellowship.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/carpenters-fellowship.png 640w,https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/carpenters-fellowship-355x60.png 1024w,https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/carpenters-fellowship.png 1440w,https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/carpenters-fellowship.png 1920w\" alt=\"Carpenters Fellowship\" width=\"550\" height=\"60\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You may book for one or more days, up to a maximum of all three days. Please book separately for each day that you want to attend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/civi.sylva.org.uk\/civicrm\/event\/info?id=29&amp;reset=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8757 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/book-now.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/book-now.png 640w,https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/book-now.png 1024w,https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/book-now.png 1440w,https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/book-now.png 1920w\" alt=\"book-now\" width=\"350\" height=\"108\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/civi.sylva.org.uk\/civicrm\/event\/info?id=29&amp;reset=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Read more and Book your place for Day 2 (13 October)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how to make various built components of an Anglo-Saxon building with tutors from the Carpenters&#8217; Fellowship (Saturday 13th October, Day 2). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[129,367],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Wessex_timber-web.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12730,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9024\/revisions\/12730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}