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Some of the volunteers shaping the wood using Neolithic tools © Russell Sach
Volunteers in 2019 being part of the solution, not the pollution.
PICKING UP THE VOLUNTEER SPIRIT
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olunteers at Derwentcote Steel Furnace have been fighting dirty to make their site car park clean and welcoming. With the support of Durham County Council, English Heritage volunteers were able to run a litter pick at Derwentcote Steel Furnace car park – removing plastic bottles, sweet wrappers, buckets and even a garden chair. Derwentcote car park boasts a beautiful meadow and picnic area; it is now the ideal place to enjoy lunch following a visit to Derwentcote Steel Furnace. English Heritage Monitor Volunteers will continue the hard work of our litter picking group to ensure the car park retains its new condition.
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Stonehenge team shortlisted for award
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ollowing a carpentry course where volunteers learnt to use Neolithic tools, we decided to make a wooden sledge to move a four-tonne stone. Volunteers split tree trunks with wooden wedges and mallets, and shaped mortise and tenon joints using bone chisels, flint axes and adzes. During Easter 2020, we invited visitors to pull the finished sledge – 80 to 100 people were needed to move it. We ran it on halved and quartered logs, uphill, downhill, around corners and in circles. Finally, we took it off the rails and pulled it on grass – we were amazed at how well it went, and it made us rethink how the stones may have been moved. Visitors went away having had a unique experience, and our team was shortlisted for the Museums and Heritage Awards 2020.
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