The Saxon House Builders

Parabow craftsmen complete the first stage of the Saxon house
Read about the day to day progress on the site.
Parabow visitors sink into history in the Italian mud

Roman Ships from 200 BC are slowly coming to light at the excavation of the old river port of Pisa. Parabow visitors saw at first hand the work being carried out to raise the fragile remains of Roman warships and merchant vessels from the grey mud that engulfed them over 2000 years ago.

Pictures of the Italian Visit
Craftsmen return from Iceland Turf Building expedition


All aboard the Viking Longship
Steen, Anders, Erkki, Yuri, Graham, Paul, Andy, and Gunnar ended their stay in Iceland with a trip round the bay at Reykjavik. The craftsmen took to the oars in the re-constructed longship.

Pictures of the Turf House Building in Iceland
1000 Year Old Wood Fragments Identified in Iceland Church Site

Wood Fragments Identified
The wood identification showed us that the church in Seydisfjördur was made of driftwoood, that was probably collected on the shore. The wood identification also showed that one of the coffins that was found in the graveyard was made of larch.

Wood Analysis Report from Italy.

Steinunn Kristjansdottir 10 Dec 1988

Jerry Hawe, intrepid woodman from Ireland, goes in search of forests in the land with no trees Jerry describes his visit to Iceland as part of the PARABOW team in this report in words and pictures.

Students allocated tasks at Iceland dig.
Steinunn Kristjansdottir August 1999


Alnus sp (Alder) radial section

The identification of the wooden samples from the 1998 excavation on a church and a surrounded graveyard at the abandoned farm called Thorarinsstadir, located in Seydisfjordur, S-Mulasysla, Iceland, has been performed by means of observation through a Scanning Electron Microscope.

Nicola Macchioni and Simona Lazzeri (Web Site)