Day 2; Out of the jungle, into the Nettles
Kempsford to somewhere near Buscott 5th June 2023 Day two began with a somewhat late start. In fact by the time we had packed everything...
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prehistoricexperie
- Jul 15
- 8 min
Day 1; To the River!
Day 1; Cricklade to somewhere near Kempsford 4th June 2023 ( I wast unable to write blogs while on the river - phone signal and the...
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prehistoricexperie
- May 31
- 3 min
Final preparations
I took the canoe frame, and the huge increasingly pungent skins with me to the Bushcraft show. The frame was much admired... The stench...
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prehistoricexperie
- Apr 27
- 6 min
Ancient river, ancient boat
I have always loved the water. Apparently as a baby it was one of the only things that would send me to sleep! I have swum in lakes,...
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prehistoricexperie
- Feb 10
- 4 min
Porcupine
Porcupines are not an animal i know a lot about. I didn't encounter any on my previous visit to Ontario in 2005, and only think of them...
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prehistoricexperie
- Feb 3
- 2 min
Creatures of the Cold
Some of the tracks we spotted on the trip! We saw a huge range of tracks and signs during the trip- from wolf and deer to mouse and...
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prehistoricexperie
- Feb 3
- 4 min
Working with furs
I'd worked with furs before- mostly to construct clothing for our stone age workshops, but also for my Fashion degree. In the latter...
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prehistoricexperie
- Feb 3
- 5 min
A whole lot of foxes
Making the parka for my trip truly felt like an epic undertaking. I decided early on to try and use UK skins as much as possible. The...
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prehistoricexperie
- May 20, 2022
- 5 min
Hedgehog Haircare??
I Often use parts of animals in my work, just as our ancestors did. I source them from various places; hunters, pest controllers,...
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prehistoricexperie
- May 20, 2022
- 3 min
Why study the stone age?
The stone Age can seem an impossibly distant period of time, so distant perhaps that you might think that learning about it isn’t really...
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prehistoricexperie
- May 9, 2022
- 5 min
Sub Zero temperatures in Stone Age clothing!?
Some of you will have seen my recent posts on the various bits of clothing I'm making for my winter trip to Canada next year. The trip is...
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prehistoricexperie
- May 4, 2022
- 2 min
Nettle cake recipe: a delicious slice of spring!
It was my birthday last weekend, so i decided to exercise my dormant baking muscles and make a cake fit for a forager, and suited to a...
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prehistoricexperie
- May 4, 2022
- 7 min
Good enough to eat; 10 of the best spring forageables!
Spring is the time when nature bursts into life after the winter slumber. Buds swell and erupt into new leaves, shoots push up through...
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prehistoricexperie
- Apr 16, 2022
- 5 min
3 ways Yarrow can save your life
Yarrow the wonder herb that could save your life! Let us face it; Flint knapping is a blood sport. If you play enough with sharp things,...
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prehistoricexperie
- Apr 14, 2022
- 11 min
Setting the Record Straight; Why eating Roadkill isnt so crazy!
Much has been made of my Roadkill scavenging habits recently. An article Written by a press agency ended up in papers all over the world-...
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prehistoricexperie
- May 8, 2021
- 3 min
Surviving Ice-age temperatures in stone age clothing
( photo by Thetford photos) For the Living by nature Winter course I am going to need to make a lot of clothing. It needs to fit and work...
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prehistoricexperie
- May 8, 2021
- 3 min
Ertebolle Culture; Mesolithic ingenuity
The Ertebolle culture of the late Mesolithic Denmark ( 5300-3950BC) is fascinating from an ancient technology point of view, not just...
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prehistoricexperie
- Apr 12, 2021
- 5 min
Looking for lithics; identifying manmade flint tools
Fossil hunting was my route into Bushcraft. Along with a passion for sorting through beaches worth of stones for sharks teeth and other...
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prehistoricexperie
- Feb 18, 2021
- 3 min
Uses for Animal guts
I've always been fascinated by the idea that 'everything has a use' the innate inventiveness of humans allowed our ancestors to turn...
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prehistoricexperie
- Feb 18, 2021
- 4 min
Paleolithic shell Headdress; The head gear of a Godess?
The burials of the upper paleolithic give a tantalising glimpse of the richness of the cultures that existed at that time. The best...
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