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mediumaevum:

Building a Monastery the Medieval Way

Historians, architects, archaeologists and volunteers in Germany are teaming up to build a medieval monastery the old-fashioned way. Working conditions will be strictly 9th-century, without machines, rain jackets or even coffee. It will take decades, but they hope to garner fresh insights into everyday life in the 800s.

Read the article (03-2012)

This. I want to do this. This is why I am studying history, so I can go out and freaking do it!

theoddmentemporium:

Puzzlewood is an ancient woodland site, near Coleford in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. The site, covering 14 acres, shows evidence of open cast iron ore mining dating from the Roman period, and possibly earlier.

In 1848 some workmen, after moving a block of stone in the woods, found a small cavity in the rocks. In this cavity, hidden away, were three earthenware jars containing over 3,000 Roman coins. No-one knows why the coins were hidden away in the cliff face nor by whom.

J. R. R. Tolkien, a frequent visitor to the Forest of Dean, may have visited Puzzlewood, and many believe Puzzlewood was the inspiration for the fabled forests of Middle-earth, such as the Old Forest, Mirkwood, Fangorn or Lothlórien contained within The Lord of the Rings. J.K Rowling is also said to have visited Puzzlewood, and it may have been this that influenced her idea of The Forbidden Forest in the Harry Potter books.

bowleryoyo:

this is one of the most amazing single ball contact juggling i’ve ever seen

thumbs up!

So much fun.

lumpyturnips:

This is why we need LED fans. They would be fucking amazing.

theflyingoliphant:

mah frendz got mad skillz.  <3

Not my pictures but, some of the awesome people I met this weekend at Wildfire.

sk8nska:

Cyrille contact juggling