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Gareth at work on the bone flutes in the Celtic Village.

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The finished flutes.

The lower of the two is Gareth's replica of the possible Neolithic flute from Penywyrlod.

The topmost one is his replica of the White Castle medieval flute.

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Sally getting a note from the replica Penywyrlod whistle.

I haven't had the chance to catch up with her to see whether she thought this would actually have been a viable instrument.

Festival of British Archaeology 2009

A few photos from last weekend's "Magic flute" event in which Gareth Riseborough tried to make replicas of a medieval and a possible Neolithic flute.

He was successful in both projects. The medieval flute plays very well and looks fantastic. The Neolithic whistle looks the piece, but is very difficult to play - no fault of Gareth's there, the reason he was trying to replicate the original was to see whether it was actually a whistle, or whether it might have been simply a dog-chewed bone.