Active autumn for the Scottish Crannog Centre
September 2014
Following an extremely busy July and August with several great feel-good events, staff at the Scottish Crannog Centre are looking forward to a fruitful autumn season.
Building on new skills and experiments, the Iron Age team will be presenting a day about prehistoric weaponry on the 14th September. From Stone Age to Iron Age, our ancestors were clever craftsman who utilized the resources around them and traded when they wanted or needed to 'upgrade'.
The event features exhibits of a range of weapons, including some made at the Scottish Crannog Centre. Demonstrations will include finishing and polishing of bronze weapons, attaching shafts and gluing feathers to arrows. There will also be close range archery and light spear-throwing sessions to enable young visitors to test their skills.
As autumn progresses, the team will be harvesting bracken for the crannog house floor and wall insulation. Then all hands will turn to foraging and preparing for the Fruit and Fungi event on Sunday, the 12th October.
Featuring juicy apples and foraged nuts, berries and fungi, the hands-on event features apple-crushing, pressing and juice blending as well as baking nutty breads. There will also be plenty of tasters of a wide range of seasonal goodies including rowan jellies, rosehip syrup and cordial, apple and bramble cake, and spreads inspired by local foraging.
Meanwhile, fungi lovers can not only sample a range of Iron Age-inspired mushroom dishes prepared in the clay ovens and fire-pits but also learn how certain fungi are used as tinder and as fire-carriers and then try out fire-making by using a bow drill.
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