Iron Age

Felin Uchaf (UK)

Member of EXARC
No

Felin Uchaf is a centre for holistic education. It is a place where the nourishing link between human beings and their environment is promoted through practical work and by sharing.

Set in Wales, Felin Uchaf is a centre for holistic education in which ancient technologies are taught and lived by volunteers and where local community has a centre for sharing cultural and spiritual experiences.

New Barn Field Centre (UK)

Member of EXARC
No

The New Barn Field Centre, in which the principles of model making are used, is an educational centre.

Within the grounds of the New Barn Field Centre, the (re)construction of an iron age roundhouse is used for educational programmes. But many other activities are available for the pupils.

Navan Center - Emain Macha (UK)

Member of EXARC
No

The important archaeological site, in Northern Ireland, which yielded traces of consistent occupation since prehistory, was threatened by the expansion of a nearby limestone quarry.

In the proximity of the archaeological site of Navan Fort, the Centre displays a reconstructed roundhouse and hosts facilities for edutainment.

Book Review: Experimentelle Archäologie in Europa, Bilanz 2012

Thijs Hofland (NL)
Annual Proceedings of the EXAR Tagung
***According to James Mathieu in 2002, experimental archaeology is “A subfield of archaeological research which employs a number of different methods, techniques, analyses and approaches within the context of a controllable imitative experiment to replicate past phenomena...

The Iron Age Iberian Experimental Pottery Kiln of Verdú, Catalonia, Spain

R. Cardona Colell,
J. Pou Vallès,
N. Calduch Cobos,
B. Gil Limón,
J. M. Gallego Cañamero and
L. Castillo Cerezuela (ES)
The goal of this project is to reconstruct the operational sequence of manufacture of Iberian Iron Age pottery, from clay procurement to firing in a reconstructed kiln. Although pottery is the most characteristic artefact recovered on Iberian Iron Age excavations, most of its complex processes and production techniques remain poorly known...

Book Review: Performing Heritage: Research, Practice and Innovation in Museum Theatre and Live Interpretation by Anthony Jackson & Jenny Kidd (eds)

Kirsty Sullivan (UK)
This useful text brings together recent thinking about museum theatre and the performance of heritage, offering a range of international case studies to its readers as evidence of the discipline’s usefulness in interpreting the past for visitors...