Cinderbury Iron Age Village
- the experience of a lifetime .....just not this lifetime!
The Cinderbury Iron Age Experience is a unique opportunity to travel back in time to an authentic Iron Age settlement and experience the lifestyle of over 2000 years ago.
The settlement of four roundhouses which would have been home to an extended family community of about 20 people. The buildings, including residential and workshop roundhouses set within a palisaded enclosure, show the different building styles and materials used in the area during the late Iron Age.
Visitors can escape the trappings of the 21st century at the entrance, slip into Iron Age dress, live in a roundhouse, feast around a roaring fire, learn Iron Age skills and crafts including making pottery, woodworking and, of course, iron-making - for either a week or weekend while day visitors can enjoy a shorter taste of an Iron Age lifestyle. Read more about Cinderbury's Living History breaks at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4921824.stm
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Roundhouses in the Iron Age village
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Chatting with a Guide beside the open cooking fire
The site, in a clearing on the edge of the Royal Forest of Dean near Coleford, has been transformed into the Iron Age village with a farming area, vegetable and herb garden and the settlement of roundhouses, stores and workshops where demonstrations of Iron Age crafts are given - with the opportunity for staying visitors to participate.
Friendly, knowledgeable costumed guides lead you back in time and guide you through the Cinderbury Experience and answer any questions you may.
Explore at your own pace (this is not a guided tour), then relax and enjoy the peaceful surroundings with a picnic around the fire - before stepping back into the 21st century.
Left: The Bloomery Furnace used for the production of iron; right: Up-Draught Pottery Kiln used to make cooking pots
Outside the palisaded village enclosure are the Vegetable Garden, Farming area and the Scowles.
The Scowles
Stroll through the ancient iron-mining landscape of the Scowles - early cave systems rich with iron providing a ready source of iron ore to be mined from the surface.
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Easy walk through the Scowles (not suitable for wheelchairs or pushchairs)
Cinderbury is included in the Forest of Dean and Severn Estuary Guide.
For further information about the Cinderbury Iron Age Village and Iron Age Experience, please visit www.cinderbury.co.uk or telephone 0870 6093219.
