We enjoyed our afternoon at the Medieval construction workshop in Kirkwall which was part of the Science Festival.
We learned how Earl's Palace was built.
We learned how people transported materials. Pull!
Look how they moved stones!
Taking the strain!
We learned how they lifted things too.
Our challenge was to build an arch - it was tricky!
It was all about trial and error to begin with.
Nearly there!
We even tried walking over it once....
twice!
We learned about stone masonry.
We even seen a stone mason carving sand stone.
We tried on the safety mask too...
...it was really big!
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