ANYONE who happens to be in the village of Hawkridge on Bank Holiday Monday for the annual Revel and Gymkhana will only need to walk a few yards further up the tiny main street for an unexpected surprise.

What was once was regarded as an extinct country craft is in fact alive and well in Hawkridge, in a Victorian workshop under a copper beech tree.

Ninety-year-old Tom Lock and his grandson Rob Follett are Exmoor’s last ‘antler men’. They make beautiful and unlikely objects out of red deer antlers and will be welcoming visitors to their time-warp workshop at the top of the village from 10am until lunchtime on Monday morning.

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