These images show various areas of the tula (all are copyright Chris Holden 1997-2007). Click on the image to see it full size.


A stead house:











The chief's hall:











Woodcraft area of the Chief's stead:











Another view of the crafters tools:

Another stead house:











Inside the stead house:











The spear, knife and shield of a fyrdsman in storage:











Entrance to the clan's sacred barrow:

















Close-up of the barrow entrance:

















The south hunting grounds:
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The valley hunting grounds:















Duckbill fungus. Seen as an omen in the area - the neighbouring clan the Squirrel Eaters (that's their nickname, as they are squirrel eating stick-pickers) see it as an opportunity to hunt durulz, while it means something quite different on this tula:















Many of these images first appeared on my now defunct Angl-Saxon history website. The steads are in fact houses photographed at West Stow Anglo-Saxon village. The barrow is in fact Wayland's Smithy. The huntlands are areas of King's Forest, and Thetford Forest where I happened to be walking my dogs.

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