skep

It looks like a vintage bee skep made of wood for Godzilla-sized bees, but the experience inside is completely surprising.

His mother, Agnes, is drawn most finely, out in the meadows checking her bee skeps, woven of hemp.

By the Middle Ages, bee-keepers were using skep hives - they're the classic woven beehives that look like a tapering stack of straw tyres.

He embarks on a series of forays into past worlds: cutting hay, building a drystone wall, making a skep for beekeeping.

In medieval and pre-modern Europe hives were often kept in boles, or wall recesses that housed wicker and mud skeps that served as the hive.