{"id":9378,"date":"2019-09-10T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/?p=9378"},"modified":"2019-09-10T18:03:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T17:03:00","slug":"anglo-saxon-open-day-20-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/anglo-saxon-open-day-20-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglo-Saxon Open Day 20 October"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"edmmh\" data-offset-key=\"d7c-0-0\">\n<p><strong>On Sunday 20th October, Sylva Foundation will be celebrating the completion of the reconstruction of the Anglo-Saxon &#8216;House of Wessex&#8217; at the Sylva Wood Centre by holding a public open day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9379\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Wulfheodenas-July-2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9379\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9379\" src=\"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Wulfheodenas-July-2019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Wulfheodenas at the House of Wessex, July 2019\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Wulfheodenas-July-2019-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Wulfheodenas-July-2019-scaled-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Wulfheodenas-July-2019-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Wulfheodenas-July-2019-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Wulfheodenas-July-2019-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Wulfheodenas-July-2019-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wulfheodenas at the House of Wessex, July 2019<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Come along to marvel at the amazing hand-crafted building whose timber frame used 80 trees donated by Blenheim estates before being shaped by dozens of volunteers earlier in the summer. During August, families came to help complete the wattle and daub walls, before work could start on the thatched roof.<\/p>\n<p>Living History Society the Wulfheodenas will be moving into the house, and able to talk with visitors about their plans to turn the empty house into a living breathing reconstruction of Anglo-Saxon society. Also on display will be metal work, weaving, and perhaps a little cooking on the open fire.<\/p>\n<p>Open 10am-3pm, Sunday 20th October.<br \/>\nFree entry.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the project: www.sylva.org.uk\/wessex<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9774m-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"9774m-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"9774m-0-0\">\n<div id=\"attachment_8930\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hlf_english_landscape_black.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8930\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8930\" src=\"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hlf_english_landscape_black-300x71.jpg\" alt=\"Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund\" width=\"300\" height=\"71\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8930\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div data-offset-key=\"9774m-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6aqe1-4-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday 20th October, Sylva Foundation Foundation will be celebrating the completion of the reconstruction of the Anglo-Saxon &#8216;House of Wessex&#8217; at the Sylva Wood Centre by holding a public open day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[161,218,222],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Wulfheodenas-July-2019-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9378"}],"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=9378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}