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Stuart King

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Wassail—an ancient English tradition

Stuart King with his much used two gallon Wassail bowl

Wassailing is 1000 year old English tradition. Stuart King outlines the simple chronology and and some details of the wassail bowl.

Wizardry in Wood exhibition 2012

Wizardry in Wood is the worlds premiere show case for the craft, historical and contemporary, held every four years in the City of London.

Little Missenden, Threatened by High Speed Rail (HS2)

Little Missenden is a typical ‘Mid Sommer Murders’ village’. Sneek in and take a look at the phantom hedgecutter!

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Automaton in wood by Stuart King

I built an Automaton

An automaton can amuse and entertain using the simplest of mechanical technology and can be made by anyone using basic woodworking skills.

Wild wood Archaeology

The Wildwood is still giving up its secrets, albeit slowly. Exploration started rather late due to a wet spring but continued well into the autumn with each carefully dug and recorded trench revealing a little more of life from prehistory to the medieval period.

Mystery of the Moor—4000 years of woodturning

A Bronze Age burial chamber was discovered on Dartmoor, with the remains of a woman, and four lathe-turned ear studs. So began an archaeological experiment.

  • The BBC TV news visits the Wildwood
  • The Romans were here!
  • Beech Nuts in the wild
  • The Speckled Wood Butterfly
  • Hidden Wildwood Camera
  • Mary Rose — making a sailor’s boxwood hair comb
  • Spirit of the Wildwood
  • Wildwood flowers
  • The Wildwood Blog
  • Tree Felling in the Wildwood

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