Friday, 2 October 2020

Medieval buildings from UK open air museums

 So this post is a little different, there are no pictures of miniatures or terrain in this post. What I have got is a number of photos I've taken of various medieval buildings at open air museums I have visited and as I have accumulated them as reference for terrain building I thought they might be of interest to others thinking of further builds.



15th century barn at Chiltern open air museum 

Iron age Roundhouse interior Chiltern open air museum 
Iron age roundhouse Celtic Harmony camp


Tudor outbuilding Weald and downland open air museum 



Man powered well



High street W&D various timber framed buildings 





Iron age roundhouses Buster open air museum 


Saxon longhouse Buster open air museum 

Iron age roundhouse Buster 













14th century flint cottage W&D 




Saxon longhouse W&D above,15th century Wealdon house below W&D
Period beehives 
High Street W&D various timber framed buildings 

Tudor barn W&D 
I hope this is of interest to some, I'm doing this partly because I was going through theseon my phone as I get ready to start on some dark age buildings.  Legacy blogger hasn't lasted long, so this has been painfully put together in the new format which seems to delight in deleting images left right and centre! I'm afraid there is still a  few lost titles in the post but if I were to try and delete them I would no doubt lose more images, I guess I will preserve but it's much less intuitive on the phone, which I understood was one of the reasons for the change? Next up? Probably cavalry, probably dark ages. 
All the best 
Iain 


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45 comments:

  1. Jonathan Freitag2 October 2020 at 17:15

    Iain, this is a very useful compilation of buildings for period-specific architecture projects. Very interesting.

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    1. caveadsum14714 October 2020 at 09:54

      Thanks Jonathan! I mostly put them together so I had a reference for scratch building, it's good to know they're interesting!
      Best Iain

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  2. Phil2 October 2020 at 17:16

    Nice pictures, always glad to see (and mostly visit!) open air museums...

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    1. caveadsum14714 October 2020 at 09:55

      Thanks Phil! It is,although unlike yours,ours are seen mostly in the rain!
      Best Iain

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  3. Ray Rousell2 October 2020 at 17:28

    Great pics Iain. Love the beehives! Never seen any look like that before?

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    1. caveadsum14714 October 2020 at 09:56

      Thanks Ray! Medieval style beehives, Simon Chick has made some on his HYW blog,they're fun aren't they?
      Best Iain

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  4. Dave Stone2 October 2020 at 17:37

    Excellent reference pictures Iain, thank's for sharing

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    1. caveadsum14714 October 2020 at 09:57

      Thanks Dave! Better books/pictures make modellers better!
      Best Iain

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  5. nundanket2 October 2020 at 17:55

    Very interesting Iain. I too was taken with the beehives.

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  6. Norm2 October 2020 at 18:40

    Thanks Iain, a good reference for colour and texture.

    re blogger, the images seem to need a proper space to go into, with a space above and below it, otherwise it defaults to shoving the image to end of the post. I get results if I hit the return 3 time to give me three blank lines and then put the image in the middle of them (i.e. the 2nd line).

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    1. caveadsum14714 October 2020 at 09:58

      Thanks Norm , I shall persevere and try what you have advised, sensibly as always!
      Best Iain

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  7. Lawrence H2 October 2020 at 21:32

    These look great. I lived near Beaconsfield for two years and never realised that there was the museum nearby.

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    1. caveadsum14714 October 2020 at 10:25

      Useful pictures I think? Beaconsfield is a bit odd,it's built around a crossroad, more German traditionally we've always avoided doing that in England,crossroads are where we hang people so that their ghosts are confused !
      Best Iain

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  8. rross2 October 2020 at 21:57

    Nice pics Iain - the 14th century cottage looks quite similar to how I made one of my Border Reiver cottages look - even has the same V shaped "bump" over the entrance way etc! I was heartened to read you too have had issues with the new Blogger - I was starting to think it was only me! Its no better on a lap top, I can assure you, but I too will persevere!

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    1. caveadsum14714 October 2020 at 10:28

      Thanks Keith! I guess you get a hump over the doorway when you have low walls? Not enjoying new blogger to be honest! The first picture was used for the scene where the 2 queens meet in a laundry in the Mary Queen of Scots film you liked.
      Best Iain

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  9. Delta Coy3 October 2020 at 00:35

    Great reference photographs Iain. The last time we were in Germany we came across Cloppenburg, an open air museum in Lower Saxony. They have preserved a large range of buildings from around the 1500s - 1800s. A great reference for my 7YW buildings. Cheers Greg

    https://www.niedersachsen-tourism.com/a-open-air-museum-cloppenburg

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    1. caveadsum14714 October 2020 at 10:29

      Thanks Greg! I'll have to check it out!
      Best Iain

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  10. Gonsalvo3 October 2020 at 02:02

    I enjoyed these shots a lot, Iain. The Flint Cottage definitely makes me think of a Hobbit dwelling. Bag's End, anyone?

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    1. caveadsum14714 October 2020 at 10:30

      Thanks Peter! Yes,definitely built for little people! Depopulated in the black death pandemic!
      Best Iain

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  11. DeanM3 October 2020 at 03:16

    Oh, very, very cool! I love visiting places like this. I was fortunate to visit a few sites there back in 2013 - Farnum castle and Stonehenge.

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  12. Matt Crump3 October 2020 at 08:23

    Thanks Iain very interesting collection, several of which would look good on the table top

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  13. Michal DwarfCrypt3 October 2020 at 09:12

    Ah, that's looking awesome!

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  14. Oli3 October 2020 at 09:20

    Great photos Iain, always interesting to see these buildings, especially as there hasn't been any reenacting in places like these this year.

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    1. caveadsum14714 October 2020 at 10:32

      I'm sure you know them well! I guess reenacting has been hammered this year too.
      Best Iain

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    2. Oli5 October 2020 at 23:13

      We managed to get one private event in and that was it! Have a look https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3325463314199774&type=3&__tn__=-UC-R

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    3. caveadsum147111 October 2020 at 19:30

      Glad you were able to get one event this lousy year!
      Best Iain

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  15. Zabadak3 October 2020 at 15:56

    Excellent collection of reference photographs, particularly of interest to me was the different colours and conditions of the thatch. I've often wondered if modern polution affects thatch colouring (as it does in many buildings).

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    1. caveadsum14714 October 2020 at 10:35

      Good question, I know Trajans column has been eroded by pollutants, so much so that the plaster cast taken in the 18th century in the Victoria and Albert museum is in much better condition than the real thing,I guess that as thatch has a much more limited lifespan as a material there might not be time for it to show?
      Best Iain

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  16. Cyrus3 October 2020 at 22:48

    Excellent pictures, very useful for painting buildings!

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  17. Codsticker4 October 2020 at 17:08

    Fantastic photos- really useful for this of us who are interested in this kind of thing but live on the other side of the world.

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    1. caveadsum147111 October 2020 at 19:31

      Thanks Codsticker! We are lucky having it on the doorstep, not that it's stopped you building some excellent period structures!
      Best Iain

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  18. Suber4 October 2020 at 23:23

    Sweet. I love seeing this kind of buildings and stuff. As the others said, it's quite an useful reference!

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  19. Stew5 October 2020 at 15:08

    Really cool pictures and I enjoyed seeing them, thanks for sharing. One of the few drawbacks of Being an American is the lack of medieval sites to visit in our own county. 😀
    (Least, there used to be only a few drawbacks to living in America, seems like there has been more recently...😝)

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    1. caveadsum147111 October 2020 at 19:32

      Thanks Stew! I do remember visiting an interesting castle in Las Vegas?!
      Best Iain

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  20. James Fisher10 October 2020 at 04:44

    Most interesting photos Iain. Great to see such things preserved.
    Regards, James

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    1. caveadsum147111 October 2020 at 19:33

      Thanks James! Yes,glad there has been some preservation!
      Best Iain

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  21. Pan Janek18 October 2020 at 17:32

    Thanks for posting Iain. Some cool terrain ideas!

    Best wishes,
    Jan

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  22. tim20 October 2020 at 03:59

    These are a great reference - thanks for sharing your findings

    (wow... that's almost exactly like some spam comments I've gotten!? Ha! But really, these are great pics showing details of buildings I won't likely ever get to see in person!)

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    1. caveadsum147120 October 2020 at 08:44

      Thanks Tim! At least your not promoting a casino! I'm glad you think they might come in handy.
      Best Iain

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