The 2016 prehistoric festival took place on Saturday 27th August at North Yarrows, on the northern side of the Loch of Yarrows and in the centre of the Yarrows Prehistoric Landscape.
The festival was a showcase of traditional skills and techniques, including flint knapping and copper smelting by James Dilley of Ancient Craft http://www.ancientcraft.co.uk , pottery, spinning and dyeing, and wicker basketry with skilled craftspeople doing demonstrations and impromptu workshops for anyone interested in trying their hand at something new. There was also storyteller, Bob Pegg http://www.bobpegg.com who entertained all with tales of mysterious creatures and prehistoric lives, accompanied by the sounds of traditional musical instruments . For food lovers there was food foraged from the local landscape and cooked in a traditional way by Rosie from Wild Rose Escapes http://www.wildrose-escapes.co.uk
The event included a display of experimental archaeology and experimental ceramic sculpture. A reconstructed Bronze Age stone row and sculpture kiln cairn provided the focus for the festival. The stone row was built by the excavators of nearby Battle Moss stone row and attempted to replicate construction techniques not tried in 3000 years. The kiln cairn was built by Jenny MacKenzie Ross of Northshore Pottery and mimiced the burial cairns often associated with stone rows – see Jenny’s blog for more details. https://northshorepottery.co.uk/2016/07/26/the-kiln-cairn-a-sculpture-event-for-pre-history-festival/
The culmination of the festival was a nighttime spectacular centred on the firing of the kiln cairn and a performance of a traditional story by Bob Pegg and the children of Thrumster Primary School.
Catering was by the Whaligoe Steps Cafe, and visitors enjoyed Karen’s delicious food and soaked up the prehistoric atmosphere!
More details here
http://sites.cardiff.ac.uk/anderson150/
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