United Kingdom

Summer Course Archaeometallurgy

Date
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Organised by
Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project
Country
United Kingdom

Due to the nature of the practical experiments we cannot take anyone under the age of 18 on this course. 
Ever wondered how ancient people made metal, and/or created their beautiful objects? 

The Mechanics of Splitting Wood and the Design of Neolithic Woodworking Tools

Author(s)
Roland Ennos 1 ✉,
J. A. Ventura Oliveira 1
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2017/4
Because of the anisotropy of wood, trunks and branches can be vulnerable to splitting along the grain, especially radially. This fact was widely exploited in pre-industrial times, when wood was mostly cut and shaped by splitting it along the grain while still green, rather than by sawing...

Now we’re Cooking with Gas! How Experimental Archaeology Challenges Modern Assumptions about Metal Recycling

Author(s)
E. Giovanna Fregni 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2017/4
It is accepted knowledge that when re-melting alloys, some of the metal with a lower melting temperature is lost through oxidation, and more metal must be added in order to maintain the desired alloy proportions. In order to understand the changes in alloy content when recycling using Bronze Age technology, experiments were undertaken by the author and others...

Broken Rocks, Fired Clay and Soured Milk – A Summer of Experiments with the Bamburgh Research Project at the Bradford Kaims Site

Author(s)
Rebecca Rutheford 1 ✉,
R. Brewer 1,
R. Moss 1
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2017/3
The Bamburgh Research Project operates an archaeological field school every summer in Northumberland, England. We have two sites: one located at seaside Bamburgh Castle and the other a few miles away inland at the Bradford Kaims. The Bradford Kaims is located on the edge of a wetland and has shown evidence for prehistoric seasonal human occupation...

1620s House & Garden (UK)

Member of EXARC
No

Donington le Heath is a village on the River Sence in North West Leicestershire. Donington le Heath Manor House, built around 1280, is one of the oldest surviving houses in England.

The building stands on Anglo-Saxon foundations, suggesting that an even earlier structure occupied the site: it has a hall facing south and two wings on the north side and a moat. There are some alterations made in the 17th century, including some of the windows and the ground floor entrance.

Flint Festival

Date
-
Organised by
English Heritage
Country
United Kingdom

Sharpen your prehistoric tools for a day out to remember as we celebrate everything that is great about flint! Explore the undulating grounds of Grime’s Graves, the only prehistoric flint mine open to the public in the UK, before heading deep underground into the prehistoric flint mine* wearing your hard hat!

Book Review: The Arte Militaire. The Application of 17th Century Military Manuals to Conflict Archaeology by Warwick Louth

Author(s)
Thit Birk Petersen 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2017/3
The book consists of the rewritten essay of a master thesis. The author got his master's degree as a battlefield and conflict archaeologist from the Centre of Battlefield Archaeology at University of Glasgow founded by Professor Dr. Tony Pollard in 2006. I myself have studied at the Centre of Battlefield Archaeology back in 2007, and it was a pleasure to dive back into my old field...