Eddix the Old Boar (also known as Eddie Wills)

The oldboar.network is the brainchild of Eddie Wills, formerly Warden of the internationally renowned Peat Moors Centre, until it’s closure in October 2009.

Eddie began collecting woodlice in match boxes at the age of two and moved onto flint implements by the age of five. His interest in wildlife led him to a  career in conservation, but Eddie’s passion for Iron Age culture grew out of a college placement at a Iceni hillfort, to cover all aspects of the Celtic way of life, from prehistoric farming practices, and craft skills, to warfare and mythology.

With over twenty five years experience as an environmental educator, Eddie never tires of sharing his enthusiasm for outdoor learning with young people, so the oldboar.network seemed the logical next step. He has an enhanced CRB disclosure, First Aid Certificate, and membership of the Council for Learning Outside the Classroom, the Institute for Outdoor Learning and EXARC, the international organisation of Archaeological Open Air Museums and Experimental Archaeology.

Together with some of his former associates from the Peat Moors Centre, he is setting up the Somerset Lake Village Project with the intention of creating a reconstructed Iron Age lake village in the Brue valley close to Glastonbury. As this project develops, news will be posted on this site.

Eddie has also recently been ordained a minister of the Church of England and is Assistant Curate at Wedmore, where King Alfred signed the peace with Guthrum the Dane.

Eddie Wills, the oldboar.network Beonna House, St. Marys Road, Meare, GLASTONBURY, Somerset, BA6 9SR 01458 860212 eddix@oldboar.net 07971 511564

The international organisation of Archaeological Open Air Museums and Experimental Archaeology