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.
Wildwood Blog
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 BBC TV news visits Stuart King in the Wildwood to seek out the Romans
The Romans were here!
What were the Romans doing in the Wildwood?
Beech Nuts in the wild
Most folk wouldn’t recognise a beech flower. Those that remain on the trees are maturing into distinctive triangular beech nuts.
The Speckled Wood Butterfly
This has been a fantastic year for the Speckled Wood butterfly. There has been fierce competition for the shafts of sunlight that our 2013 summer has provided in abundance.
Hidden Wildwood Camera
In one corner of the Wildwood is a pheasant feeder. To monitor the effectiveness I acquired an infrared motion activated camera to observe what really happens both in the daytime and at night, and I have been delighted with the first two 24 hour sequences. Amongst the visitors were badgers, muntjack deer, fox, squirrels, a rabbit, rook and jay… but no pheasants.
Spirit of the Wildwood
The Wildwood is a nature photographer’s paradise and I never visit without my camera.
PS: The register of professional turners has a new website, http://registerofprofessionalturners.co.uk
Wildwood flowers
May, The long awaited spring warmth has been very slow to materialise but the Wildwood is now populated with a variety of specialist Chiltern woodland plants and flowers, some areas are completely transformed.
