27 August 2016, Starts: 12:00, Ends: 19:00

The 2016 prehistoric festival will take 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 will be a showcase of traditional skills and techniques, including flint knapping, copper smelting, 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. We also have a storyteller who will be entertaining both children and adults with tales of mysterious creatures and prehistoric lives, accompanied by the sounds of traditional musical instruments. For food lovers there will be food foraged from the local landscape and cooked in a traditional way – in 2015 the dough baked venison was a highlight of the day!

The event will include a display of experimental archaeology and experimental ceramic sculpture. A reconstructed Bronze Age stone row and sculpture kiln cairn will provide the focus for the festival. The stone row will be built by the excavators of nearby Battle Moss stone row and will try to replicate construction techniques not tried in 3000 years! The kiln cairn will be built by Jenny MacKenzie Ross of Northshore Pottery and will mimic the burial cairns often associated with stone rows – see Jenny’s blog for more details.

The culmination of the festival will be a nighttime spectacular centred on the firing of the kiln cairn and a performance of a traditional story by the children of Thrumster Primary School.

Catering for the festival will be provided by the Whaligoe Steps Cafe, and there will be space for visitors to sit and enjoy Karen’s delicious food and soak up the prehistoric atmosphere!

Doors open at midday, fiery spectacular from 7pm.

Free Entry

Please no dogs.

Further details from http://sites.cardiff.ac.uk/anderson150/