From This is Devon
(And if you'd like to order one for yourself, you need to speak to the chap at chariotmaker.com)
" Two and a half thousand years ago the original was belting around the muddy highways like an ancient equivalent of a Ferrari - now a replica of the UK's earliest chariot is enjoying a much quieter life, on display in a Westcountry museum, writes Martin Hesp.
But the remarkable machine won't be at rest for long at the Somerset County Museum in Taunton - soon it will head for Edinburgh to be exhibited close to where the original was found in a recent archaeological dig.
So why should a replica of a Scottish chariot be temporarily residing in the Westcountry? Because it is "drying out", according to its creator Robert Hurford - the West Somerset-based craftsman who is the nation's only professional maker of chariots."
Full story here
(And if you'd like to order one for yourself, you need to speak to the chap at chariotmaker.com)
" Two and a half thousand years ago the original was belting around the muddy highways like an ancient equivalent of a Ferrari - now a replica of the UK's earliest chariot is enjoying a much quieter life, on display in a Westcountry museum, writes Martin Hesp.
But the remarkable machine won't be at rest for long at the Somerset County Museum in Taunton - soon it will head for Edinburgh to be exhibited close to where the original was found in a recent archaeological dig.
So why should a replica of a Scottish chariot be temporarily residing in the Westcountry? Because it is "drying out", according to its creator Robert Hurford - the West Somerset-based craftsman who is the nation's only professional maker of chariots."
Full story here
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