It was raining again this morning so we lazed around the house until it cleared around lunchtime.
After lunch, we drove to Postbridge to see the Bronze Age exhibition at the National Parks Visitors Centre. The display was very impressive and made things clearer re standing stones, stone rows, stone circles and roundhouses. The explanation of roundhouses was particularly useful and helped with our understanding of Grimspound from the other day. They also had a film about a local potter replicating a Bronze Age pot (remnants found in an archeological dig) – very interesting.
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| Bronze Aged Round House |
From there it was back to Dunsford and down the road to meet Maggie (a friend of Shirley and Roger) at the Cider Museum where they produce cider one month of the year. Very traditional and very rustic. The building was extremely ancient and made from cob (about 500 years old) and used to be a farmhouse in Saxon times. They have a huge press (350 years old) used to crush the apples through straw, fermented on wild yeast and aged in oak casks. We sampled some of the cider (not everyone's cup of tea) and purchased some to take home and sample further at a later date.
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| Cider Press at the Cider Museum |
