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| SSA Manager, Lisa Fisher in front of our exhibit. |
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| An array of food: crab apples, acorns, black mustard seeds, fermenting elderberries. |
The weekend of September 20-22nd, I assisted in promoting the Sussex School of Archaeology at the Bentley Country Park Woodfair. We had several exciting projects occurring such as flint knapping, bone carving, Mesolithic and Roman cooking, spinning and weaving, repairing a Saxon sunken-feature dwelling and teaching children how to make pinch pots. There were also several dishes of raw food that would have been available in the Mesolithic, Iron Age and Roman periods on display that led to hearty discussions with visitors passing by our table. We swapped knowledge throughout the two days that I was there. Many had never heard of the SSA since the school is brand new this past year. I described some of the projects that the SSA has been doing such as the excavations in Isfield and the past two weekends of reconstructing pottery. Visiting groups of children were especially fascinated when I donned my safety goggles and pounded some fire-cracked flint in a mortar and pestle to use as temper for making pottery.
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| Me, up to mischief as usual. |
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