Traditional hazel hurdle making

On Sunday 4^th October join Anthony at the Ancient Technology Centre for a day’s hurdle making with coppiced hazel.

Hazel wood is a fantastically versatile product. It can be used to weave fence-lines, as a building materials and even twisted into a type of rope with the long fibres inside the bark.

Hurdles are a traditional product used to separate livestock in a field and in modern times as a sustainable fencing product.

On this one-day course you will learn how to create a hurdle from scratch which you can then take home. You will use traditional tools such as a billhook and be taught how to split the hazel and weave this traditional woodland product.

Park in Cranborne Middle School car park and walk up with everything you need for the day to the Ancient Technology Centre site.

You may wish to bring a folding chair for you comfort as there are are only wooden benches for seating.

At the end of this day you will take home your woven hurdle so ensure you have sufficient transport to do so.

At Conygar Coppice Anthony specialises in bespoke and tradition greenwood projects, building alternative structures, and educating outside the classroom. His experience in teaching ancient history through rural crafts has led him to lead forest schools, teach in school settings, at the Ancient Technology Centre as a tutor and within his business as a heritage crafts expert. He also builds roundhouses for a range of educational and environmental settings.