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Summer / Fall 2007

   As a continuing step towards our goal of providing a complete year-round living history experience, Camlann comes to life on scheduled weekends , with portrayals of medieval villagers and every-day village activities.

  Saturdays / Sundays  (see Calendar)

Noon to 5 pm 

Admission:  $5.00 per person

 Noon to 4:00 pm

 

   Weekend Demonstrations include medieval blacksmithing, textile production, animal care, artwork, kitchen techniques, gardening, soap and candle making, culinary and medicinal herbs, shoemaking, spinning, weaving, clothing design and other household skills.  Presentations provide an in-depth focus on these village activities with the opportunity to interact with villagers, who portray medieval people, discussing their work, their life in the 14th century, and perhaps some village gossip. The  Shops are open, and the Bors Hede serves hot hearth-cooked meals throughout the afternoon.  For seasonal Festivals and Banquets see our complete Calendar.

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Roger of Glastonbury, innkeeper

Portrayed by Roger Shell

 

 Retired from his former career as a minstrel in the household of Guichard d'Angle, Roger manages the Bors Hede Inne gifted to him by his patron, hosting and entertaining travelers who stop over on their journey between London and Exeter.  Roger also maintains a painted feast hall where banquets are hosted for Feast Days, for Sir Geffrey, the village lord, and for other visiting guests.

 

Diana atte Wells, Village Scribe

  Portrayed by Diana Peterson

 

Trained as a scribe in her father's workshop in Wells, Diana traveled with a noble retinue before settling down in Camlann Village.  She now serves Sir Geffrey's household as a scribe, and serves the villagers as a notary.   In her workshop Diana demonstrates the art of illumination, mixing of colors, calligraphy techniques, and decorative designs for furniture and wall murals. 

 

Alys of Rochester, cook

Portrayed by Sally Shell

 

 Widowed by her mason husband, who fell from a building scaffold, Alys prepares wondrous meals on the open hearth in the Bors Hede Inne.

 

 

Timothy Hewen, blacksmith

Portrayed by Timothy Plourd

 

Our village smith works iron on his portable forge, making tools and hardware for the medieval villagers.   His experience in France on campaign with our lord, Sir Geffrey, has taught him the skills of hammering out plate armor, and the working of maille. 

 

 

Richard of Westwood, fletcher

Portrayed by Scott West

 

      Member of our Freemen Company of village archers, Richard is always busy trimming feathers which he binds carefully with cord onto the arrow shafts.  These he puts to his heavy war bow when archery is demonstrated on Sir Geffrey's tourney field

 

Kristen, servant

Portrayed by Chris Waterhouse

 

As a free woman in the village, Kristen finds employment cooking for the innkeeper, and does apprentice herself in the scribe's shop, where she is occupied learning the skill of cutting quills for Diana.

 

Lucy, village chandler

Portrayed by Michelle Hanson

 

 Villagers make most of their own household necessities.  Candles and oil lamps are primary sources of indoor lighting.  You can help Lucy dip beeswax candles over a hearth fire for use in Sir Geffrey's  great hall, or purchase some to take home to your own manor.

 

Mary Shearer, cottar

Portrayed by Diana Peterson

 

      Her family has been serfs at Camlann as long as they can remember.  She is a cottar, married to one of Sir Geoffrey's shepherds, and often does the hand shearing of our Cotswold sheep, a very old breed associated with the west country in England.  She shears the Camlann's sheep twice a year: their full fleece at the May festival and tagging and trimming on the weekend of our Michelmasse Feast.  The rest of the year she spins wool and milks the ewes in the lord's manor.

 

 Jonathan Seaton, carpenter

Portrayed by Jonathan Seaton

      Post and beam construction, using mortise and tenon techniques, are featured as we construct our wattle and daub peasant cottage.  Jonathan is expertly skilled in using the froe, broad axe, draw knife, frame saw, planes, chisels, augers, and other  carpenters' hand-tools available in medieval Europe.

 

 

Isabel Darner, servant

Portrayed by Sonya Dezarn

 

     Since her mother left the village to cook for Sir Courteney, Earl of Devon, Isabel has worked in her stead in the Bors Hede and now is apprenticed in the clothier shop, learning to weave, spin, and to fashion kirtles and gowns. 

 

 

David Bowyer, freeman

Portrayed by Dave Tinsley

 

David is yeoman of Camlann's company of freemen.  Skilled at archery and the fine art of making of bows from yew wood, David is charged by Sir Geffrey to maintain a high level of skill among the village freemen.

 

 

 

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